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

If you want to cater to 1-word cell, use this... based upon astander's

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