© Jennifer Harder 2017

Jennifer Harder, Data Merge and Styles for Adobe InDesign CC 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3159-3_1

1. Introduction: Creating a Workspace

Jennifer Harder

(1)Delta, British Columbia, Canada

Welcome to working with Data Merge and Styles in Adobe InDesign.

In 2005 when I started working with a print house as a freelance graphic artist, some of the clients that the owner of the print house and I worked for had to print various mailings for communication and corporate events. In the past, I had created labels for our clients using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word Mail Merge. However, there were instances where I had to lay out some of the artwork in Adobe InDesign or the client supplied only a PDF of the artwork. Working ...

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