Taking characters from 1st and second word from a string

smalik

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
How can I pull first three characters from the first word and then first two characters from the second word and then concatenate?

For example, County Risk Sharing Authority Inc

the final result should be CouRi

Thanks in advance
 

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If it is true that words are separated by spaces, then e.g.

Excel Formula:
=LEFT(A1,3)&LEFT(TEXTAFTER(A1," "),2)
 
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