HI Trying to create paragraph with color tabs and description. Like the one you see on Maps for Malls showing stores/ store numbers and names. Like the sample below.Thanks,

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HI Trying to create paragraph with color tabs and description. Like the one you see on Maps for Malls showing stores/ store numbers and names. Like the sample below.

Thanks,

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Correct answer Laubender

There is a color code. But not in order. NO excel

I have an old quarkxpress file with all stylesheets but thinking on recreate this in indesign for future use. We make changes every two months .

Hi mannyb49081980 ,

if you update the lists every two months I'd suggest you do an Excel list to bring order to the data.

How to do this will depend on the features you can use with InDesign. And that will depend on the version of InDesign you are working with. What's your version of InDesign on what operating system? What's your version of Excel?

How will you get updated information from the customer?

Regards,
Uwe

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Laubender

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Hm. What's the specific question?

What did you try? Where did you fail or get stuck?

Regards,
Uwe

mannyb49081980Author

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Thanks,

My question is how to create/add the color blocks to the paragraph?

Manuel Bocanegra

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Thanks so much. I got it to work almost perfect. Still working on the black border (this is a little confusing but we’ll figure it out)

Manuel Bocanegra

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One of the things I love to do in my spare time (for which I set aside a couple hours a day as it beats watching TV), is to try and solve such problems. So thank you for posting the issue, Manuel!

I don't have a current subscription, so I used something else. I didn't add tab leaders in my text styles on purpose.

My take on this is if I had this job to do every couple months—is there that much turn-over, or is it a low print-run, or?—and the budget was low, I would update a spreadsheet, copy the sheet, paste into a text editor and use Em Software's data merge. Once set up, it takes a minute to produce, maybe a couple minutes to handle bad frame flow, etc.

But if there was a decent budget, I would likely use a database for error checking upon entry/changes, and then export tagged text and, again using an Em Software product to import, just import the text into my template.

However, like mentioned above, how I would handle the output would partially depend on what is given me.

Mike

Steve Werner

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And the question is....?

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