leave only first letter of last name

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gccjason

I tried to search for this solution on the web, but finally gave up.

Here's what I want to do

In a cell I have a users First and Lastname (yes both in the same
cell).
I'd like to end up with Firstname and first letter of Lastname (don't
have to still be in a single cell, but would be nice).

So go from: Ima User to Ima U

Thanks for your help
 
Assuming data is in A1 down,
Try in B1: =LEFT(A1,LEN(TRIM(A1))-SEARCH(" ",TRIM(A1))+1)
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Maybe you could post/paste some sample data (to cover as full a range of the
different variations as possible), and the expected results.
I'm sure you'll get much better suggestions ..
 
In the interim, guess you could also try this:

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),SEARCH(" ",TRIM(A1))-1)&" "&MID(TRIM(A1),SEARCH("
",TRIM(A1))+1,1)

Let me know how many percent is achieved with the above <g>
 
Trash the earlier convolution, sorry

Just try in B1: =LEFT(TRIM(A1),SEARCH(" ",TRIM(A1))+1)
 
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