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I'm afraid Word's string manipulation in fields is close to non-existant.
The only way that occurs to me would be a set of (nested) IF fields,
similar to this (but checking for all letters of the alphabet):
{ IF "Best"="A*" "A" "{ IF "Best" = "T*" "T" "?" }" }
Note that you're limited to a maximum of 19 nesting levels, so you'd have
to break this down. Or just create a set of 26 fields and maybe put them
all in a QUOTE field (to make it easier to keep things together):
{ Quote { IF "Best"="A*" "A" "" }{ IF "Best" = "B*" "B" "" }{ IF "Best" =
"C*" "C" "" } }
Is theere some sort of switch or command that will truncate a resulting
bookmark to just the first character.
I want a client's middle initial to appear in a document, not the full
middle name.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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