More tips can be found at the Sydney Indesign User Group which meets bi-monthly in the city, and is a free forum for designers to discuss topics and the latest Indesign features. A new Indesign file will be created with Multiple pages. The final step is to go to: Data Merge options > Create Merged Document > Records per doc page: Single Record > OK. Repeat for the other fields > you could make them bold or change the colours to see the content change. Then click on a field name in the panel (First name, Surname, Company, Location, Event). All the normal design features and functions apply at this point. 2 Open up your prepared InDesign file this should include your designed master pages. In this example I am using Microsoft Excel in Windows however, these. You may wish to place text from a Word document, as usual. Designing and Data Merging with multiple records in InDesign CS6 or CC 1 Get all the dynamic information in a CSV file. Next open Indesign and create an A4 letter or flyer. Add Data Fields to label Drag the field names onto the label area. The fields are now shown in the Data Merge panel.
Browse for the file we saved in step 2 and click Open. Select Data Source click the panel menu icon and click Select Data Source. When all the data has been entered, go to: File > Save As > Other Formats > CSV format. Click Window > Utilities > Data Merge Step 4. Note that the top row must represent the value fields.
#Indesign data merge multiple records per page series
Merging data from a program like Excel into Indesign and outputting as a series of PDFs is a fairly simple procedure, and one of the many features we explore in our Adobe Indesign courses.įirstly, open Excel and create a simple spreadsheet with 5 columns & 5 rows, like the one illustrated here.
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