Thanks everyone for your help, I had tried to figure this one out on my own
by searching some old posts but I'm still trying to understand some of
"language" of formulas and got frustrated.

Thanks again!

"Shane Devenshire" wrote:

Hi,

There is nothing wrong with the stated approach.

First make sure that the formula is refering to the cell on the same row as
the formula. In other words
=LEFT(A1,Find(" ",A1)-1)
should be entered in B1, if the first entry is in A1.


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"CrisT" wrote:

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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"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!