Greetings!
I am working on a book catalogue, each page will have one or more text frame with autor, title, subtitle, code etc.
The pagination process is quite a nightmare since I wasn’t provided a comprehensive excel file from the beginning and most of the text was added when it was made available. Anyway, that’s not a problem, I use all kinds of styles ang grep tricks to make it work.
What I’d like to do, once the catalogue is done, is to extract the useful infos in a separate excel file (I could use it in the next catalogues, this is a returning client and I would do also next ones).
I already use data merge and had no problem mapping xml tags on the infos I’d like to export but I can’t seem to be able to export them in a file I could use as a base for data merges in the future. What I need is a “reverse” data merge of sorts, from indd to excel. The excels I exported are messy and every info, even if in the same box (or linked boxex) ends up on a different line and creates lots of double entries…
Is there a way to do it?
I hope I was clear enough, can also attach an exmple file if needed.
Thanks!
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