You're welcome...........glad it worked out for you and thanks for the
feedback.........

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3


"tinalwalton@yahoo.co.uk"
<tinalwaltonyahoo.co.uk.1noxhn@news.officefrustration.com> wrote in message
news:tinalwaltonyahoo.co.uk.1noxhn@news.officefrustration.com...
>
> Thanks a bunch - I've sorted now with Find and Replace. Why didn't I
> think of that???????!!!!!!
>
> CLR Wrote:
> > It kinda depends on how your data is structured, with spaces between
> > initials or not...........but you could experiment with the Edit
> > Replace-
> > Find what: space***space Replace with: space,.........-
> >
> > and see how it goes........or maybe use space*space, or space**space,
> > etc
> > etc until you get it.......may take a couple of tries.......then maybe
> > replace "Mr Mrs" with "Mr & Mrs".........etc etc
> >
> > Vaya con Dios,
> > Chuck, CABGx3
> >
> >
> > "tinalwalton@yahoo.co.uk"
> > tinalwaltonyahoo.co.uk.1nnjhm@news.o...rustration.com wrote in
> > message
> > news:tinalwaltonyahoo.co.uk.1nnjhm@news.officefrustration.com...-
> >
> > I have over 2000 postal title in the following formats:
> > MR L A & MRS T L SMITH
> > MR L A SMITH
> > MR L A SMITH, MISS T L JONES & MASTER J S SMITH
> > etc etc
> > I want to convert it to a salutation as follows:
> > MR & MRS WALTON
> > MR SMITH
> > MR SMITH, MISS JONES & MASTER SMITH
> >
> > I basically want to remove the initials to leave the title and
> > surname.
> > As far as I can see I need to remove all text characters except "&"
> > that
> > are 1 character in length.
> > Can anyone help??!!
> >
> >
> > --
> > tinalwalton@yahoo.co.uk-
>
>
> --
> tinalwalton@yahoo.co.uk