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Replacing second name with spaces

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timscronin

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I have an Access97 table i recived that was supposed to have a firstname column with only firstname but has firstname space and middle name. Is there a way to remove the middle name from the field?
 
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Try an update query using
Left(myField, InStr(myField, " ")-1) -------
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