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Merging data - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Advanced InDesign: Productivity Techniques
Merging data
- [Narrator] This chapter is all about merging data with design. So, what we're going to accomplish in this chapter is you're going to take this sample business card that holds name information role, phone number, and email addresses. We'll take Excel to input all the data that we need in order to create additional business cards that also include the picture of that particular person. And the end result is going to be an enzyme document that has all of these individual business cards with the information in it with a picture that is ready for print. Now you can use this method for basically anything that needs any personalization. So this could be a business card. This could be your next Christmas cards. This could be a personalized mailing. Anything that you basically want. The only thing you need to know is how to properly set up the data using Excel and how to properly merge the information using InDesign. Let's get…
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Merging data57s
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Preparing the data in Excel7m 4s
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Placing placeholders5m 6s
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Merging the document as a single-record layout3m 46s
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Merging a multi-record layout4m 31s
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Challenge: Creating personalized mailing1m 12s
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Solution: Creating personalized mailing3m 21s
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