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• • March 20, 2013 at 8:41 am #64443
    junogle

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    I am using data merge to create documents for high school graduation issues for two different high schools for the newspaper I work for.

    For each school, I have created a single document data merge to print proofs of the individual students. For the first and largest school, I've done a successful test run of a multiple document data merge of all the students. I then used the Excel .txt file from high school #1 to create the database for high school #2. We have successfully done the individual data merges for proofs for each of the students in high school #2.

    However, when I try to run the multiple document data merge for high school #2, InDesign gives me the spinning wheel of death. Forever. I cand run or preview a single item, but it hangs up if I try to run them all or a range (even just 1-2).

    I am stumped as to why in what are basically the same documents one works and the other does not. Can anyone help?

  • March 20, 2013 at 8:44 am #64444
    junogle

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    Sorry. I should say it's CS3 I'm using, not CS2.

  • March 21, 2013 at 8:42 am #64455
    junogle

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    Figured it out. Or rather, a co-worker helped me figure it out. A graphic I was using was too large for InDesign to handle on the multiple document data merge. So I deleted part of it that wasn't really necessary, made a PDF and reduced the file size (just to make sure it was small enough) and that worked.

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