Have you tried:
Left$([YOURFIELD],Instr(1,[YOURFIELD], )-1)
HTH
David
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Subject: [MI-L] Creating Labels using Space
Try:
Left$(MyColumn, InStr(1, MyColumn, )-1)
In this instance, InStr() returns the position of the first space character.
Subtract 1 from this to exclude the space itself in the label.
Cheers,
Peter
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here ya go, this should werk...
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Left$(YOURFIELD, InStr(1, YOURFIELD+ , )-1)
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the YOURFIELD+ is in case your field value doesn't have a space in one of
them so it won't return zero on the instr command, it'll give back 1 greater
than the len of the
