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David BlatnerOh my gosh, that’s great! I stand corrected. Thank you, Kai.
David BlatnerInDesign’s Data Merge cannot do that. A script could. Or you might want to look into scripting Excel (so that you can create the data with the duplicates in excel before using data merge)
David BlatnerThis was discussed on another thread here:
The quick answer is there is no “generic” way to do this for thousands, millions, billions, and more… you need to run more than one find/change.
Also, Peter Spier wrote on the Adobe forums: “First find \d(?=\d{6}\.\d) and change to $0, which will add the comma for the millions, then find \d(?=\d{3}\.\d) and change to $0, to add the comma for the thousands. These expressions work only if there is a decimal number”
However, there is also a free script here: https://www.id-extras.com/script-to-format-long-numbers
David BlatnerDo you see the text in the exported PDF?
Is there any overset text? (look in the Preflight panel)
David BlatnerI totally agree. It’s very annoying. This came up in the “talk back to Adobe” session at PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference this year, so I know the product mgmt team has heard it multiple times.
Consider posting your idea here: https://indesign.uservoice.com
David BlatnerThanks for the heads-up about the spam. Sorry, that sneaks through sometimes. It was rather funny, though, how bad the writing was.
Ari, those are great grid tips. But in this particular case, the grid was created manually (less fun than the gridify feature!). I wrote an article about it here: https://creativepro.com/auto-reflowing-images-in-a-grid.php
David BlatnerI don’t think so; the footer row is not really considered part of the table. It is almost always designed differently than the rest of the table.
David BlatnerUsing copy and paste is okay for simple text, but I would not recommend it with formatted text — and especially not with text with non-English language. Check out Diane Burns’ articles in issues 11–13 of InDesign Magazine where she discusses publishing foreign languages:
https://creativepro.com/issues
David BlatnerHi Jan, there are lots of articles on cleaning up and importing Word docs here on indesignsecrets. For example:
https://creativepro.com/remove-multiple-returns-and-replace-with-space-between-paragraphs.php
You might also want to watch Anne-Marie Concepcion’s video tutorial on making Word and InDesign work better together at lynda.com.
David BlatnerYou can add a column break character at the beginning of one of the paragraphs if you need to push it into the 2nd column.
See:
https://creativepro.com/unequal-columns-frame.php
David BlatnerThis generally happens to me when I still have the old PDF file open in Acrobat. (And I have heard that sometimes Acrobat thinks it has files open when you can’t see them, and requires quitting from time to time. I haven’t experienced that, though.)
David BlatnerI fixed the typo (assuming you meant “tame”).
The Keep Options features should keep the paragraph together.
Thought, in older versions of InDesign it was broken:
https://creativepro.com/making-split-columns-honor-keep-options.php
No way to tell it to give the right column more “weight” though.
David BlatnerIDML was built as a way to “downsave” to earlier versions of InDesign. It is very robust, but you should always proofread your document after doing it. It literally recreates your document, so it often gets rid of document corruption and weirdness (like the kind you’re experiencing)
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