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timothyh70102503
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February 14, 2018
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Indesign and Data Merge

  • February 14, 2018
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I have a card design double sided, it is for a child sponsorship in Haiti, I need to merge with a spreadsheet that has over 300 kids, I go through the steps and it either puts the same photo and info on every page or just one.

So my question is when I set up the InDesign Document how do I set it up, do I set over 300 Pages? Do I set up the copy on each page or will it place it on every page, do I leave all but the first page blank?

Can someone list the steps in simple language? Every thing I look up starts after the indesign document is created and I am I will add a copy of the layout.

It is a two sided document printed front and back 300 times plus.

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    Jeffrey_SmithCommunity Expert
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    February 14, 2018

    Is the name of each photo entered into the source data? For your example, the image used is named: child1.jpg. Is there a column in spreadsheet designated for the corresponding photo, along with the other data to be used?

    NameGradeBirthday@photo

    Emmanuel

    		69/14/03child1.jpg
    Maria57/25/05maria.jpg
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      timothyh70102503Author
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      February 14, 2018

      The data seems to work, when I choose, name, image ect, but when I hit preview it is only on the first page and not the second.

      Should all the other pages just have background and I tag just the first page for Data Merge?

      What I am trying to figure out is do I need to put the copy on every page and an image box or just on the first?

      How do I lay out the InDesign part of it?

      Then the data merge.

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