=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1&" ")-1)

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Blueboy" wrote in message
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I have a lengthy licst of names I need to use for a mail merge. The first
names are seperated from the last, that's great. however, many of the
first
names have a mibddle initial and some have a period following the initial.
Is
there a way I can remove the last 2 characters of a string? I don't want
the
initilals included in the merge.
Examples of the list:
Marvin P.
Mary R
etc.
Thanks.