Remove text

[Farback]

I have a table which has a list of Names and addresses in column A i.e.:
John Smith 4 Acacia Crescent London WE1
The only thing that is constant about the list is the space after the forname and the space after the surname. Is there a formula for removing everything after the second space, to leave just the name, i.e John Smith. Any help appreciated

 

[anandvarma]

easy way is text to column

 

[anandvarma]

try this formula

=LEFT(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)+1))

 

[Sandeep Warrier]

How about

<b>Excel 2010</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #BBB"><colgroup><col width="10px" style="background-color: #DAE7F5" /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #DAE7F5;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style=";">Data</td><td style=";">Name</td><td style=";">Address</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style=";">John Smith 4 Acacia Crescent London WE1</td><td style=";">John Smith</td><td style=";">4 Acacia Crescent London WE1</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #BBB;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #DAE7F5;color: #161120">Sheet1</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #BBB"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #DAE7F5;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #DAE7F5;color: #161120">B2</th><td style="text-align:left">=LEFT(<font color="Blue">A2,FIND(<font color="Red">" ",A2,FIND(<font color="Green">" ",A2</font>)+1</font>)-1</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #DAE7F5;color: #161120">C2</th><td style="text-align:left">=TRIM(<font color="Blue">SUBSTITUTE(<font color="Red">A2,B2,""</font>)</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

 

[Farback]

Thanks for that anandvarma, both useful methods, I think the text to columns suites my purpose best.

 

[anandvarma]

i am glad it helped