Question

I have a table->column first-name with values:

Juan
Manuel l.
Richard Wit

I’m trying to do a query that return

Juan
Manul
Richard

I want to eliminate after a space.

Answer 1

Assuming you want SQL, try

SELECT MID(name  + " a", 1, INSTR(name + " a", " ")-1) AS FirstName FROM myTable

In VBA it would be similar, since Mid() and InStr() work exactly the same as in Access-SQL

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Really, though, it would be better to just store first and last name in separate fields so you don’t have to do this sort of finagling in the SQL.