Reply To: Tagged Text

I wonder if you’re using some third-party plug-in for importing text, such as Xtags (emsoftware.com). Are you saying that you can open the old InDesign files in your current version of InDesign and import the text and it works, but it doesn’t work with new files?

How sure are you that the exported data hasn’t changed?

Tagged Text is a pain, to be honest, and no longer well supported in InDesign. Most people who want to do database publishing use some other tool, such as Data Merge or free scripts based on data merge, or a more expensive solution such as InData or EasyCatalog. I talk about that in detail in my lynda.com course on the subject.