TEXTJOIN Combine text across a bunch of cells into one cell =TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,A2:A10) EXCTRACT FIRST N NUMBER OF SENTENCES OUT OF STRING IN CELL Replace 3 with the number of sentences you wish to extract. =TRIM(LEFT(A2,FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A2)&".",".","^",3))-1))&"."