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EngelseBoer EngelseBoer is offline
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Default return 1st word in string

thanks

"Sheeloo" wrote:

Assuming first word is followed by an space in all cells
then you can enter the following in B1 and copy down;
=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1))

"EngelseBoer" wrote:

is it possible to search a column (A)
and copy the 1st word of each cell to (B)

A B
Dopper Zulu = Dopper
Korma Xhosa = Korma