Data Merge Magic
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This article appeared in Issue 140 of InDesign Magazine.Easily transform your plain spreadsheet data—and lots of it—into an InDesign masterpiece.
Imagine you manage your marketing data in a spreadsheet, and now you need to turn it into something amazing in InDesign. Something visually appealing and intellectually compelling. Something that’s not a table.
What’s a marketer to do?
Enter InDesign’s Data Merge function, which marries spreadsheet data with InDesign’s design functionality. Simply put, Data Merge allows you to drag fields into your document, apply formatting to the content with styles, and place it into a series of frames.
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