Placing a "." after single characters only

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ddennis

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Hello All:

I have a spreadsheet with peoples' names. They are separated by Last name, first name and middle name.

Some of the middle names have more than one character.

I wish to place a "." next the a middle initial ONLY if the middle name contains only one character. If the middle name contains more than one character, it must be ignored.

Is there a formula I can use to accomplish this?

Thank you all very much

Dee
 

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Are the names in separate cells? (i.e. A1 = Last Name, B1 = First Name, C1 = Middle) If so I think you could use

Code: 
=IF(LEN(C1)>1,C1,C13&".")
 
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