Changing your account display name

In the Mail's pref's there is a field you can fill in to display "full name' I used to display both first and surname, I have changed it to just first name in the pref field but it is still displying both first and second.
How do you over come this, do you have to trash mail pref's or is there a better solution?
Thanks

marc smith6 wrote:
I will try this but before I do I think I may know where the problem is. When I type in my email address in the "to" field when composing a new email the display name comes up when the email is being typed, the kind of autofill preceedure it does. Will this be changed when rebuilding mail index?
no. that's set in the previous recipients list. you can access it and delete unneeded entries in Window menu->previous recipients.
there is also your entry in Address book that shows up there. But I'm confused. This is "to" field. I thought your problems were with 'from" field.
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