Getting Characters from a text field

[Mushi]

I am trying to step up a auto entry calculation that gets the first letter from the FirstName field. I can get all the text that is written in that field, but I only want the first letter.

Does anyone know of some way to do this? I am pretty new to FileMaker, and I cannot figure this out.

Thanks everyone

-mushi

[Lee Smith]

Hi Mushi,

Try

Create a New Field:

FirstLetter

Calculation = Text Result

Left ( YourFieldName; 1 )

HTH

Lee

[Mushi]

Thank you very much!

The solution is very simple and it seems silly that i asked such a dumb question, but thank you