Contact List - Extract First / Last Name?

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PeggyLang ✭✭✭✭✭✭

10/18/24

@Paul Newcome
I was looking for a way to extract first name from a column that contains;
- John Smith
- Fred Long Jr.
- Tony Jeremiah Jones
- etc.
=LEFT([Legal Name]@row, FIND(" ", [Legal Name]@row) - 1)

You already have a formula out there that does this perfectly.
FORMULA GENIUS!!! THANKS!!!

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