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Default Extract 1st word and in capitals

Hi Robert
try
=UPPER(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1))

Frank

Robert Gillard wrote:
I have a list in column B that looks like this

Jones Fred
Brown Al
Daniels Bert

what I want to end up with is

JONES
BROWN
DANIELS

so in short I need to extract the first word of the cell and it needs
to be in capital letters.

What is the best way to do this please.


Bob