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Anyone know how to create a Master File with editable text?

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October 7, 2025
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I'm making some business cards for a company and I have certain elements that are the same for every card - logo, main phone, lic. #, website - but then i need to be able to change the name, email, title, and mobile #, and I am trying to understand a way to do this with symbols or templates or something. Anyways any and all help appreciated!

Correct answer Monika Gause

Variables are made for this.

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If you have InDesign you can use DataMerge and flow in the data from a .csv or .txt file

It's also not a bad idea to layer things out: Logos Layer, Type layer, etc.

See

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/data-merge.html

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Variables are made for this.

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Thank you! That is exactly what i was looking for! I usually use photoshop so learning illustrator has been an experince... but this is perfect!