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Jason1845
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Jan 12, 2023
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creating and combining abbreviations from two words

I work with plants as part of my job and I handle databases of plant names, mostly in latin (ie. genus and species). I would like to be able to create a 7 letter capitalized abbreviation from a latin...
  • OliverScheurich's avatar
    Jan 12, 2023

    Jason1845 

    =UPPER(LEFT(A1,4)&MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,3))

    You can try this formula which seems to work in my sheet.

     

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