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Default how to copy the first word or two words from a cell containing a complete sentence to another cell

On 28 Jan 2007 09:06:21 -0800, "jonny" wrote:

Hi there,

I have a lot of cells containing descriptions of items - I need to
copy the first 1 or 2 words from each cell into another cell.

Any ideas greatly received!

Thank you,

Jonny



To return the first two words in cell A2:


=LEFT(A2,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A2&" "," ",CHAR(1),2))-1)

Note that within the SUBSTITUTE function:

A2 & " " <-- 2 spaces between quotes

," " <-- 1 space between the quotes


--ron