Documentation/How Tos/Suppressing Blank Address2 Fields in Mail Merge Documents

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Here is the situation we are addressing. Sometimes your addresses have two lines for the address part, sometimes they do not.

Bob Jones Marion Silverman
101 Main 888 105th Ave
Suite 55 Broomfield, CO 82211
Boulder, CO 80022


But you have to put in the <Address2> field for everybody, since it is a mail merge. The setup has to be the same.

<Firstname> <Lastname>
<Address1>
<Address2>
<City>, <State>, <Zip>


But with this approach, your addresses look like this.

Bob Jones Marion Silverman
101 Main 888 105th Ave
Suite 55
Boulder, CO 80022 Broomfield, CO 82211


Ick. How do you suppress that second Address2 line and the corresponding carriage return if there is no content for a particular record, for that Addres2 field?

Select the Address2 field in your mail merge document, choose Insert > Section, and create a conditionally hidden section with this formula.

  databasename.tablename.fieldname EQ ""
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