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Re: Multiple Character Styles in Multiple Data Merge Project

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From: Ken_Grace
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:56
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Book about trees. Stumped. Surely not.

What you want to do seems perfectly feasible but you are not telling us what your problems are, beyond that you have a 
problem.

Information comes into DataMerge from a text file � comma-delimited or tab-delimited � as words and spaces, nothing 
more. All the formatting you want to do is done to the placeholders that the information will replace. So you format 
your placeholder <<Common name>> or whatever it's called to be 12pt bold, and when you do the DataMerge, the incoming 
information will take on that formatting.

DataMerge is best thought of as a label production utility. So design your layout as if it were labels. Make one entry 
or "label" and size it so that it is an 1/nth of the page where n is the number you want to get on it. So in your 
example the layout should be no more than half a page wide. Then use the multiple label format options and DataMerge 
will create multiple versions of your layout, populating them progressively with the information.

k
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