>Does anyone have a routine to clean up names for mailing?
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>I have names like 'SMITH E ROBBIE & JONES REBECCA L' would like it to read 'Robbie Smith & Rebecca Jones' or something similar. does anyone have a routine written to clean up names?
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>Brenda

I worked on the Name application in the past. We did have a database of first names, as was suggested here and several other helpful tables with suffixes, etc. The algorithm was quite complex...