I want to use some text from the description in my browse lists but it looks ridiculous to use all of it as it is long. A long description is good when a visitor is wanting all information about a property but not for the browse page.

Does anyone know how I can take the first section of the description field, say 250 characters or so and show it underneath the thumbnail as other sites do?

Can I use any text functions to strip off this or can I copy part of it into another field and show this field with say "..." at the end?

Many thanks
John