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Raffael Raffael is offline
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Default delete middle word from a cell

wow, that was brilliant!
:)


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Try Edit Replace with Find: ' * ' and Replace: ' '
[Explicitly: Find: single space followed by * followed by single space;
Replace: single space]

Wanna Learn wrote:

Good morning
I have a large spreadsheet. The entry in one columns has a name e.g.
Mr.
John Smith. what I need is to delete the middle name so that it reads
Mr.
Smith I tried the functions LEFT , RIGHT, and text to columns. what is
the
right way to do this or do I need a macro?