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replyReplyTue 24 Nov 2009, 14:22Delegate Eoin said...

Picking out one word from a phrase

During the training i remember that we touched on a function that would allow you to pick out one word from a column that contained several. The example that we did involved picking out just someones first name and putting that in a new column.

What was the transaction, i can't find it in the documentation!

Many thanks

Eoin

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replyReplyWed 25 Nov 2009, 10:55Trainer Stephen said...

RE: Picking out one word from a phrase

Hi Eoin

Thanks for your question

The tool you are probably looking for is Text to Columns, which is located on the data menu

Select the cells that contain the data and run text to columns
Select Delimited and click next
Select the separator character (in the example you give a space)

Click Finish

Hope this helps

Regards

Stephen

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