- Create Email Alert and choose Advanced and click Next.
- In the “Insert Merge Field” drop-down, select the First Name. This will insert the first name merge field into the body of the email message.
If you want to hide the first name from view, change the color of the text for the first name to white.
- Highlight the first name merge field in the body of the email
- Use the Text color icon to change the color of the text to white.