My suggestion remains unchanged. You are not asking Outlook questions here.
What you specify as the mailing address in Outlook is of no consequence when
it comes to constructing the complex merge you described. The Mailing
Address is a derived field in Outlook. You would not use a derived field for
a merge in Word under the circumstances you require. You would use the
individual address elements which comprise them. And you would need to set
the conditions for which field is used and what to do if that field is not
populated--all Word questions.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Heliotrope" wrote in message
...
I'm sorry, I must be missing something, or perhaps I didn't make the
problem
clear. I've never seen merge fields that tell me whether the "Mailing
Address" is Business or Home, and of course many contacts have both. So
what
condition(s) would I check for? The absence or presence of the Company
Name
does not tell me which is the mailing address.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Not easy to do. This is a Word question, not an Outlook question. Post
there
on instructions for how to construct a merge using fields that will be
populated conditionally, suppress blank lines if a field is empty, etc.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Heliotrope" wrote in message
...
The mailing addresses in my contacts are a mix of home and business
addresses. I want to do a mail merge that includes the company name
only
when
the business address is the mailing address. Using Outllook 2003 SP2.
Is
this
easy and I've just missed it? Doable with coding or 3rd party tool?
Thanks
in
advance!