Label behavior changes when family is loaded

Label behavior changes when family is loaded

virginia.fry.design
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Label behavior changes when family is loaded

virginia.fry.design
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I created a label in a custom title block. I want the address text on two lines. In the label editor I added two "project address" lines and clicked "break" 

 

The two lines separate and read exactly how I want them when the title block is open in family editor. Once that family is loaded their behavior changes. Initially I thought my changes just were not loading then I realized they were, the label was just behaving differently. Once it is reloaded, if you changes one address line the second changes to say the same thing. In other words, in the family editor I set up the label so street and number were on one line, and the city, state, and zip were on the second. It worked fine.

 

Then I saved it an reloaded it in a project and when you change the top line the bottom one reads exactly the same. In other words, now in the project the label reads street name and #, and then the same again below where the city state and zip SHOULD be and ARE without argument in the family editor.

 

Is there some setting I am missing here? Why does it work in family editor and not when the family is loaded into a project.

 

 

 

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ToanDN
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Break only works when you have multiple parameters in one label.  For Project address, which is a multiline text parameter, you just add it to the label, set the width of the label extra wide, and set the line break within the content if the Project address under Project info 

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virginia.fry.design
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Thanks for your feedback. For some reason I was thinking that the address text had to be multiple line in the label editor which there isn't space for, which is why I was trying to use break and then another parameter. I didn't realize that once you brought the title block an associated label into your project it would allow you to hit return and create a second line of text. (Embarrassing!)

Thanks for your patience. Gonna be learning this for a bit. Seems like the hard stuff is easy and the easy stuff is hard.
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