Extracting Initials from Merged Name field

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m Shane - 04 Mar 2004 15:51 GMT

I have a merge field that pulls a person's full name. For my purposes on this document I don't need the full name....I only need the initials. Is it possible in Word to extract certain characters from a merge field string to get a persons initials?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 05 Mar 2004 00:14 GMT

Not easy (perhaps not even possible) in the document created by the merge.
Much easier and possible with the data source.

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>I have a merge field that pulls a person's full name. For my purposes on
>this document I don't need the full name....I only need the initials. Is
>it possible in Word to extract certain characters from a merge field string
>to get a persons initials?

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