Nick,

If you are guaranteed that the first letter of each word is capitalized this would be faster than the other solutions:

acronym = chrtran( TheString, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ", "" )

And if you don't already have all uppercase first letters:

acronym = chrtran( proper( TheString ), "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ", "" )

>I am trying to pick out first character in a string for example:
>
>Chief Probation Officer
>
>I need to return
>
>CPO
>
>
>I there a quick way of doing this, I will need to perform this operation on hundreds of strings. If there is no straight forward way of doing this then do I put each character in an array and search the array ?