Thanks Greg!! I'm assuming when I type John in the address, it automatically
fills in after "Dear", after I exit the first form field. Is this correct or
do I have to toggle each time? Do I type Text1 after Dear,in a form field or
not? When I CTRL+F9, it places brackets around "Text1" yet when I select it
and toggle field code it eliminates the box. I can't seem to get it to work.
What am I missing? Should fill in be enabled?

I do appreciate your time and respect your interest.
David

"Greg" wrote:

giddne,

Without a macro you will need two fields for the name. One for the
First and one for the Last.

The formfield that you are using to type the First name has a bookmark
name. Unprotect and double click the field and you will see it. Lets
call it Text1. Click the option to "calculate on exit"

After Dear, type Text1 select it and press CTRL+F9 then select it,
right click and toggle field code.

If you want to stick with one field for the whole name, then you could
run someting like the following as an on exit macro to populate a
second field located after Dear:

Sub ProperName()
Dim fullName As String
Dim i As Long
fullName = ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text1").Result
i = InStr(fullName, " ")
ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text2").Result = Left(fullName, i - 1)
End Sub