List or probable first/last names is problematic, as many names can be both ... Dennis, Mitchell, Paul, John, Lee, Nelson, James, and the list goes on and on.

It gets much worse when your list includes nationalities where the family name comes first.

>>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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>PROPER() would do a bit of it. The rest would require (as a starting point) a database of probable first and last names :-(