Address block order

Thank you again for your input, but using the suffix is simply another work around.  If the address block was not meant to be customized the optional fields would not appear. The intent is there and further the software is indeed setup to discern the difference between titles that are placed before the name and those placed after a name as you have a field "courtesy title" and a field " job title".  They should fix this. 

It ain't broke, so there's no reason "They should fix this". You should use it as it is intended to be used instead of complaining that it doesn't work some other way and expecting MS to change the way it works just for you.

You yourself said to use individual fields instead of the address block pointing out its limitations. If it was not intended to work the way I said they would not offer the ability to customize the address block. Once again I would point out in previous versions it worked that way. Under edit recipients you could drag the columns to the order you wanted and in the address block function simply match the fields you want. The fix is not about me.

It ain't broke, so there's no reason "They should fix this". You should use it as it is intended to be used instead of complaining that it doesn't work some other way and expecting MS to change the way it works just for you.

You yourself said to use individual fields instead of the address block pointing out its limitations. If it was not intended to work the way I said they would not offer the ability to customize the address block. Once again I would point out in previous versions it worked that way. Under edit recipients you could drag the columns to the order you wanted and in the address block function simply match the fields you want. The fix is not about me.

The Address Block has been creaky for more than 20 years. It works, as designed, but is of far less utility than using individual fields. MS has problems with the program that really make it not useful as advertised and designed (Master Documents "Feature" or Numbering) that should probably be fixed first. Anyone needing to use Mail Merge can get the information from a data file into the address.

BTW, the answers you've received are coming from your fellow Word users, not from Microsoft employees. This is primarily a peer-to-peer support forum. We can tell you how to use the program, we can't make or authorize changes to it.