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Article #55Re: Multiple Character Styles in Multiple Data Merge Project
From: Ken_Grace
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:56
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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