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truncate text to first word
As long as there's a space between the first name and the rest:
=LEFT(TRIM(A1),FIND(" ",TRIM(A1))-1) -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "Harry C" wrote in message ... 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? |
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