Word select from a string
 

I wish to select a particular word from a string but cannot see a
formula to do it. At the moment I am only interested in the first word
so coded

A1="FRED BLOGGS"

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

which works fine as long as there is a " " in the string.

However this is not always the case so the FIND function returns
#VALUE! and messes up the the formatting.

I'm sure there is an easier way of doing this so any help would be
appreciated.

Many thanks.


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Can you give an example.

Or is this what you want.
=IF(ISERR(FIND(" ",A1)),A1,LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1))

Mangesh


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Thanks Mangesh, that does what I want.


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Well thats good.
Thanks for the feedback.

Mangesh


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