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    Formula to leave first 3 words in sentence and delete the rest?

    Hello,

    What formula can i use to leave only the first 3 words from a text in cell and delete the rest of the words? For example, from this text:

    monday is the first day of the week
    the third planet of the solar system is the Earth

    i want to get this result:

    monday is the
    the third planet


    Thanks!
    Last edited by emil9216; 03-22-2012 at 01:37 PM.

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    Re: Formula to leave first 3 words in sentence and delete the rest?

    Try:

    =TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",100)),300))
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    Re: Formula to leave first 3 words in sentence and delete the rest?

    Thanks! Works great.

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