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First letter of text in field

Frazer
in The Left Brain

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Is there anyway I can run a calculation which looks at a field and copies across the first letter of each word?

In essence I have a field of names and I want to run a calc which will convert this into initials.

Thanks

If your field is "Name", the this will do it:

Left(LeftWords(Name,1),1) &

Left(MiddleWords(Name,2,1),1) &

Left(MiddleWords(Name,3,1),1)

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Thanks,

Works a treat!

Not all names are in "First Middle Last" format, so this will not be reliable under all circumstances.

Ideally the first middle and last names should be in separate fields.

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