Comments on: Break Up a Data Merge Document into Many Files

By: Eliezer

Eliezer — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:19:19 +0000

Thank you for your article.
I am working on report cards for my school. I want to use one Indesign file and one excel file (with the students names) for all four grades. I have each grade on a different page (or pages). I want to end up with different 4 different merged Indesign files (one for each grade) to be able to make into pdfs.

Is it possible to merge only certain pages of a document?

Thanks,
Eliezer

By: AMy

AMy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:32:15 +0000

THANK YOU, finally I’ve been searching all over the web for the answer to this. Just a simple check next to a box makes my life a lot easier.

By: jilltriad

jilltriad — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:00:31 +0000

I have been trying to auto populate from an excel chart into indesign but it keeps having dificulties when there is a paragraph of text.

Does nayone know a quick way to fix this or just what the rules are for uplaoding a paragraph?

By: missy

missy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:17:53 +0000

how do you flow thousands of images and text in indesign…example yearbook panel pages?

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:40:24 +0000

Hi there,

Im using Indesign to create a brochure and inputting data into it from Excel using an XML input.

When ever i input a number, even if it is formatted as text in Excel, it adds a decimal place!

Is there any way of avoiding this???

Would appreciate any advice,

many thanks,

Gabriel

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:34:58 +0000

Lindsay: If I understand your question correctly, the only answer is to make the images inline (or anchored) objects.

By: Lindsay Miller

Lindsay Miller — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:52:03 +0000

is there a way to manipulate images that are automated through data merge without having to do all the maual labor of shifting all other images.
Is there a way to have the images reflow?