Question Combobox databound filled question

[zendog1960]

I have a databound combobox in VS 2008 (Winforms application VB.Net 3.5 Framework) in which shows the complete text string of the fields in my source. Is there a way to make it so it only shows the first word if the field?

Field text sample:

John goes home
John leaves home
Jane goes uphill
Jane goes insane
Jim has fun with jane
Jim trips jane

I would like the combobox to show the following:

John
Jane
Jim

any help here would be appreciated......