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Default return 1st word in string

thanks

"Lars-Åke Aspelin" wrote:

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:56:20 -0700, 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



Assuming that there is always at least one space in the cells of
column A you can try the following formula:

=LEFT(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)-1)

Copy down as far as needed.

Hope this helps / Lars-Åke