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• • January 13, 2013 at 6:01 am #63929
    jjberg

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    Hi,

    I just got assigned a task at work to make a design for a business card, and then put in the names/departments of 90 people on those cards. I assume there is an easier way to do it, but I manually changed the names on all those cards and it took me about 90 minutes or so. I got a list in Word from the client, with this structure:

    Name (tab) Department (paragraph return)

    Name 2 (tab) Department (paragraph return) etc.

    Then I made two text frames on the master page. One where the name was supposed to go, and the other one for the department. I also assigned two different styles to those text boxes.

    So my question is if there is a way to automate this process? Maybe place the Word file, paste it etc. into InDesign, and have the Names and Departments go into the right text boxes?

    Thanks =)

  • January 13, 2013 at 6:27 am #63931
    Bob Rubey

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    You probably want to look into Data Merge.

    Although it's a bit dated, it's still relevant, so Michael Murphy's video is probably an excellent place to start: https://www.theindesigner.com/b…..erge-video

    Good luck

  • January 15, 2013 at 3:10 am #63946
    jjberg

    Member

    Thanks Bob =)

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