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‎Nov 01, 2022
04:10 AM
Hi all - apologies if this has been answered previously. I have had a look through the forums but can't see an answer for this specific issue. I am trying to speed up my brochure design process, previously I have manually made changes to our product list, but am aware that there should be a quicker way for me to make these changes, and also accomodate for updates to our listing. This image is an example of the end result I'm trying to achieve (based on last year's manually formatted text file): This is a screenshot of my current numbers file: I've exported this as a CSV and selected Text Encoding as 'Mac OS Roman' - this is a screenshot of the first line of the listing formatted correctly: I can't figure out how to progress from here - the formatting is correct, but when I choose to Create Merged Document, the option to have multiple records per page is greyed out and stuck on 'Single record' and I don't need to export to pdf, I want the whole list pasted in to the text boxes available. Is this possible? How can it be done? Many thanks if you've taken the time to read this, any help is greatly appreciated.
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‎Sep 12, 2018
04:01 AM
Hi there, I've been unable to test this as having trouble when downloading indyfont and have passed to a design team. Many thanks for everyone's responses though, I'll be sure to try those steps in future should I need a similar outcome myself. Thanks, Craig.
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‎Aug 03, 2018
08:22 AM
Thanks so much for your help - I'm looking into this from next week so I'm sure this will come in really handy!
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‎Aug 03, 2018
08:20 AM
Apologies for the late response - I'll look into this further - thank you so much for helping!
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‎Jul 25, 2018
01:42 AM
Hi there, I'm about to start work on a product brochure and was wanting to find a way to add symbols to the end of a row which feature a range of symbols highlighting if the product is Frozen, Chilled, Gluten Free, Vegan etc etc. My plan is to paste each section into the document individually e.g. within the 'meats' section we'll have a table for beef, a table for pork etc. Would it be possible to do this with a 'find and replace' confined to the individual columns, or is there a way to paste the information in along with the text data? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks,
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‎Dec 06, 2017
01:19 AM
Oh and on occasion the product list changes due to products being de-listed or new products coming onboard. I'd prefer to link to the database, but it's looking like I'll copy and paste the individual sections and format using Smart Styles. I've tried it since yesterday and it's already looking like it'll save me a HEAP of time.
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‎Dec 06, 2017
01:04 AM
Thanks - I'll give this a try as well. Really helpful!
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‎Dec 06, 2017
01:03 AM
Hi, Thanks - I know it's simplistic - I could knock that page up pretty quickly, on the other hand I have 1800 products to do that for, which makes it very repetitive and I was hoping for a solution which would speed things along.
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‎Dec 05, 2017
07:48 AM
I'll look into those - thanks for your advice.
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‎Dec 05, 2017
07:48 AM
Thanks for that - I'm going to speak to the previous design team and see if they'll pass the files to me so I can investigate. Hopefully not too much of a grey area!
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‎Dec 05, 2017
06:44 AM
Thanks. I'll do some more research into table styles and cell styles and see if that helps. My employers are happy to pay for some plug-in or automation software but the charges for what I have found so far, are widely outside of our budget. Thanks again!
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‎Dec 05, 2017
06:19 AM
Hi all, thanks in advance for your help and for reading this. I've been tasked with creating a product brochure for the food company I work for. I worked on some basic design concepts for this year's brochure but I'll be flying solo for the next one and have a couple of queries. Mostly about exporting data from Excel to InDesign and how to make everything look good and make sense. Below is a snapshot of our current brochure layout and we want something similar for next year - except I have NO idea how to achieve this - aside from creating individual tables and formatting (which would take me forever plus products are discontinued at random, which means changes to whole pages on occasion) I have a CSV file and a TXT file of the data, but each time I try to data merge, an error pops up saying I've got blank fields (presumably because of the sub-headings being included in the file and taking up a row with only one cell filled) What's the best way of creating tables, similar to the above, which I can edit easily and format to look a polished as these? Also - We have symbols for product attributes (gluten free, frozen, chilled etc) and these are signified by a 'y' if applicable, or blank if not, within the Excel file. is there a way to automate the process of grouping the Y's together and visualising with a small logo as above? Thanks again for any help - it is hugely appreciated!
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