Hello Joseph, On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 11:47:50 PM you wrote (at least in part):
JN> The macro for first name (%TOFNAME) in the template interprets all of JN> that to read, in the message editor: "Mr." '%ToFName' ain't the macro for 'First Name' of recipient, but for 'first name' in recipient field. The difference is: you can differ between 'First Name' as e.g. 'Joseph' for your name, while '%ToFName' goes for the 'first instance of a name' it sees there, and this is 'Mr.' in your case. Only '%ABToFirstName' can figure out, what the _FIRST_ name of a person is, as this name is written (hopefully) into a field named 'first name'. So if you write a mail to somebody in your AB and in 'To:' there is "Doe, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> '%ABToFirstName' can extract 'John' as 'First Name' from AB, while '%ToFName' takes the very first name it sees. There's no chance for '%ToFName' to identify _the one_ string within all given, which represents the first name. JN> Any ideas how to fix? Use consequently '%ABToFirstName', maybe in addition with an '%IF' construct, that uses '%ToFName' if '%AB...' macros are empty because you're not writing to somebody from your address book. -- Regards Peter Palmreuther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Bat! v1.60q on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1) I used to be an agnostic, but now I'm not so sure. ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
