I have a list of names in a column e.g.:
Bob Adam Smith, Steve Jobs, Stacy Jones
I’d like to use these names for a case study presentation, but they have to be anonymized.
I imagine something like:
B@b A@@m S@@@h, S@@@e J@@s, S@@@y J@@@s
But with asterisks instead of @.
Some people have very long and very short names or some have middle names, so I’m not sure if it’s possible with Excel formulas.
Something like: “=RIGHT(A1,2)&”**** ****”&RIGHT(A3,2)”
Gives me: Bo**** ****th
Which is no good.
=LET(t,TEXTSPLIT(A1," "),
e,LEN(t)-(--ISNUMBER(FIND(",",t))),
TEXTJOIN(" ",,
LEFT(t,1)
&REPT("@",e-2)
&RIGHT(t,1+ISNUMBER(FIND(",",t)))))