Extracting Initials from Merged Name field

[m Shane]

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?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

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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Doug Robbins - Word MVP