When it comes to working with long and complex content in your documents, you may find yourself using nested square-bracket placeholders within larger ones. This is an effective way to include variables inside of optional clauses in your documents or to build multiple levels of conditional language.

When working with nested placeholders, however, you must keep in mind the order of your turnsheet rows and columns.

Merge columns are applied to the documents from left to right, so it's important to order your columns correctly. In most cases, you'll want the outermost placeholder to be the leftmost column so your logic is applied from the outside in. This ensures that your content is applied correctly to your documents.

Find & Replace instructions are applied top-down, so it's important to order your rows correctly. In most cases, you'll want the outermost placeholder to be in the topmost row so your logic is applied from the outside in. This ensures that your logic is applied in the correct order to your documents.