Splitting Surname, Forename into 2 cells

Beetnik

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I have a large database with people's names entered in the format Surname, Forename in one cell. I want to do a mailmerge so that the address comes out as Forename Surname. I guess it's fairly straightforward to split the cell contents into the two names in separate cells, but how?
 

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