Excel function to get first word from sentence in other cell

Question

Excel: What function can I use to take the all the characters from the beginning to the first \'<\". I am trying to strip out the first word from A1 and put it into B1

Answer 1

How about something like

=LEFT(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1)-1)

or

=LEFT(A1,SEARCH("",A1)-1)

Have a look at MS Excel: Search Function and Excel 2007 LEFT Function