Acronym Function?

[msnyc07]

Is there anyway to generate an acronym on cell contents with a function?

Ideally I could ignore certain words e.g. of, the, and, etc. and then for
the first letter of each word generate an acronym e.g.

United States of America = USA

 

[Mike H]

Hi,

Try this UDF which extracts the first capital of each word

Function FrstLtrs(MyStr As String) As String
Dim temp
Dim i As Long
TmpStr = Split(Trim(MyStr))
For i = 0 To UBound(TmpStr)
If Asc(Left(TmpStr(i), 1)) >= 65 And _
Asc(Left(TmpStr(i), 1)) <= 90 Then
FrstLtrs = FrstLtrs & Left(TmpStr(i), 1)
End If
Next
End Function

--
Mike

When competing hypotheses are otherwise equal, adopt the hypothesis that
introduces the fewest assumptions while still sufficiently answering the
question.

 

[msnyc07]

Awesome, thanks so much!

Hi,

Try this UDF which extracts the first capital of each word

Function FrstLtrs(MyStr As String) As String
Dim temp
Dim i As Long
TmpStr = Split(Trim(MyStr))
For i = 0 To UBound(TmpStr)
If Asc(Left(TmpStr(i), 1)) >= 65 And _
Asc(Left(TmpStr(i), 1)) <= 90 Then
FrstLtrs = FrstLtrs & Left(TmpStr(i), 1)
End If
Next
End Function

--
Mike

When competing hypotheses are otherwise equal, adopt the hypothesis that
introduces the fewest assumptions while still sufficiently answering the
question.