As long as there's a space between the first name and the rest:

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

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HTH,

RD
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"Harry C" wrote in message
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I have a column with first names, some of which are concatenated with middle
initials or middle names. Is there a way to truncate to just the first
names?