Using a mixture of real names and user names in forum

[SteveU]

I'm setting up a vB5 board, and for various reasons need to use a mixture of the member's real name and user name.

I have created a Custom Profile field and called it Real Name. Now if I wanted to use this throughout the forum, previous advice was to replace username and musername throughout the templates with this Real Name field.

However, this is not my objective. Users still need to log in with their username and password, but the real name, not the username needs to appear in the post bit, and also in things like the private message form.

I have used the search and have been able to list all the forms/templates that username or musername appear in, however, I don't know how to preview their function to know what I need to have appear in them, or if I need to use username, musername or Real Name for the desired result.

Is there any way to preview the templates I'm editing? Please can someone point tin the right direction if there are any tutorials or documentation on doing this?

Thanks in advance.