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Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout
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Instant InDesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout

by Gabriel Powell
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 8m
English
Adobe Press
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Step 4: Choose Single or Multiple Records

When creating a merged document, you can generate a single record per page or multiple records per page. Your target document needs to be set up differently, depending on the option you plan to use.

Tip

To quickly find out if duplicate data-field placeholders exist in a document, locate the field in the Data Merge panel. The page it’s on is listed to the right of the field’s name. If more than one number appears, a duplicate exists.

If you choose the Single Record option, InDesign generates one page for each record found in the data source file, which is useful for envelopes and form letters. If multiple copies of the same data-field placeholder exist on the page, each instance will produce a duplicate ...

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