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Default Custom Doc Merge field to show first name in Contact Name

Hello,
If its possible how to extract the first name 'Fred" in a contact name "Fred
Jones" in Custom DocProperties for a merge in the characterformat part?.
{DOCPROPERTIES "ContactName" \* characterformat}.
Thanks in advance.
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Default Custom Doc Merge field to show first name in Contact Name

No!

You will need to modify the data file to separate first and last names.

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justagrunt wrote:
Hello,
If its possible how to extract the first name 'Fred" in a contact
name "Fred Jones" in Custom DocProperties for a merge in the
characterformat part?. {DOCPROPERTIES "ContactName" \*
characterformat}.
Thanks in advance.



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