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May 9, 2013

Is there a way of getting the first three character of every word or number in a cell ( seperated by spaces) ?

for example in cell E2 I have

BASE 150 WALL COLOUR GREEN

and would like it to read

BAS150WALCOLGRE

I have a approx a 1000 rows that I would like to do this with.

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