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

A1                   A2 
Toronto is nice   =LEFT(A1,(FIND("<",A1,1)-1))

Not sure if the syntax is correct but the forumla in A2 will work for you,