Hi Bev,

You cannot modify the contents of the standard Name box on the Main tab.

You can customise the Main tab to include another Full Name box to display whatever you like.

However, it is easier to customise the Caption shown across the top of the Property Box.

That has the advantage that it appears on every tab of the Property Box.

So click the Property Box cog Menu and choose Options…

( Alternatively, use Tools > Preferences > Property Box )

Click the Captions… button near the middle to open the Property Box Captions dialogue.

There you can set the Caption of every type of Property Box.

Select the Individual: expression at the top which probably says Individual: %INDI% [=RecordId()]

Replace %INDI% with %INDI.NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL% that will display what you requested.

Then OK out and the Prefix Name Suffix will appear in the Caption.

Sorry, No.

Hi Mark,

That is a nice idea but you may run into some cases that don’t work so well.

Firstly, I suggest you use %INDI.~SPOU[1]>NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL% so both people display their full names.

Secondly, consider what happens if there is no spouse/partner or there are multiple spouses/partners.

With no spouse/partner, it will display such as ‘John SMITH with ’

So use the =CombineText(…) function to make “ with ” conditional on a 1^st spouse/partner name existing:

%INDI.NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL%=CombineText(“ with ”,%INDI.~SPOU[1]>NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL%)

To cater for multiple spouses/partners keep nesting =CombineText(…) functions:

%INDI.NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL%=CombineText(" with ",%INDI.~SPOU[1]>NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL%, CombineText(" and ",%INDI.~SPOU[2]>NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL%, CombineText(" and ",%INDI.~SPOU[3]>NAME[1]:ADORNED_FULL%)))

There still might be problems if any spouse/partner has no Name recorded.