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Default Formula to pull first word from text string in a column

Thank you Luke, it does work. I'm sorry I should have mentioned that I
wanted to run this formula down column "T". When I ran the formula this is
what I got for the rest of the rows:

subaru WRX subuaru
subuaru STI Jeep
Jeep Wrangler Jeep
Jeep Grand Cherokee subaru
subaru WRX subuaru
subuaru STI Jeep
Jeep Wrangler Jeep
Jeep Grand Cherokee #VALUE!

CrisT



"Luke M" wrote:

assuming your data is in column A.

=LEFT(A2,FIND(" ",A2)-1)
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Luke M
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"CrisT" wrote:

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me with a formula. I have a column in
a spreadsheet that has the following types of text (for example):

Subaru WRX
Subaru STI
Jeep Wrangler
Jeep Grand Cherokee

What I am looking for is a formula to pull the first word from the column
and put it in another column, say column T.

Thank you in advance!