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Addresses Built In to InDesign Document
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So I figured rather than printing 200 copies of my postcard, then printing 200 address labels and sticking them. It would be wiser to make a 200 page indesign document, with the addresses printed directly on the card. So I'm working on getting my addresses into an excel spreadsheet. But once there, does indesign have a mechanism for importing data like this? Where I can have 200 identical pages, then load different data into one particular box in each page?
(Last edited by l008com; May 25, 2009 at 02:52 PM.
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Where are your addresses now? Why bother with excel?
create one page document with text box on master page set to link.
export addresses as comma/tab separated values, command paste into text box, text will flow to as many pages as needed... select all, search/replace comma/tab for /p or similar, apply paragraph styles, clean up.
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That seems like a kind of fragile way to do it? Any address that has one extra return in it, and every address after it will be messed up. And now the addresses are in addressbook.
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Export the addresses from address book as text file then. No need for excel.
Sorry, I mixed up my syntax a little. ^t is tab, ^p is paragraph, ^n is shift return. However your text is exported, you should be able to search and replace to get a paragraph block.
If the box is big enough to handle 4 lines of text, and you set your paragraph style to keep all lines together, the size of the address should not matter, the next address will jump to the next page's text block. Or you could set two styles up with different bottom margins. Once the page is flowed it wouldn't take long to command arrow through it and tag with styles, especially if you set up key commands for the styles.
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Also, how do you export to text, from address book?
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Hi andi*pandi - I need your help.. I have the same problem but I'm trying to figure out how you make a text box on the master page in INDD and "link" it? I'm sure it is really simple but if you could talk it through for me I'd really appreciate it.
Please PM me if you can help.
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!
(Last edited by Thorzdad; Jul 1, 2009 at 04:01 PM.
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