Help with InDesign Data Merge with lots of names on one page

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December 21, 2023
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I am creating a "digital plaque" that resembles some real ones for a school I work for.

I would like to figure out if it's possible to data merge in a way that will take an excel sheet and fill in people's names and "local". I have about 10 years of graduates I would like to do!

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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Don't see a reason for DataMerge - just create linked TFs - you can use "grid" option when creating TFs - then import names to this new Story.

If you need to have a different formatting for 1st and 2nd Paragraph on the plaques - you can either import data as a table, apply different ParaStyles to the columns then convert to text - or add something to both Cells in Excel - some unique "tags" - and then use Find&Change to apply ParaStyles - using those unique "tags".

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Agreed. Merge is to put variable text into preformatted documents. This is just a list, or table. Much easier to handle it as one text file with formatting to separate and place the names/titles.

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