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data merge is a really helpful tool within Adobe InDesign that allows you to pull data from an Excel list to automate and batch create designs today I'm going to show you how you can take information from a spreadsheet and auto populate it into your Adobe InDesign project let's get started imagine you've completed your big clients business card design and now they want you to create a business card for each of the employees working in their company first thing you want to do inside Adobe InDesign is identify What fields Your Design is going to need in my case I need name title phone and email create a spreadsheet with all of these different tags and make sure the information is formatted exactly how you want it to appear on your design we're going to go to save as and we're going to save this as a comma separated values or a DOT CSV make sure you manually select the comma separated values.csv if you select the one under common formats your data merge will not work back in Adobe InDesign you'll want to find your data merge tool if you don't see your tool you'll go to Windows utilities data merge using the Hamburg gear button to the right of the data merge window you'll want to select your data source select the file you just saved as a DOT CSV and hit open now you'll see there's four tags here in my document with all the fields that I needed with the type tool or text tool you'll want to highlight your fields and select the corresponding tags foreign checkbox inside my data merge dialog box I'll be able to see the information automatically come through and that is it we've completed text merge into an Adobe InDesign file now we need to data merge the image back in your data source we're going to go ahead and start plugging in the paths for the images we're going to take each path and copy and paste it into our data source it's time for one of the most important steps in the image merge process inside your tag section you'll want to put an apostrophe at and the word image after that you'll see that your apostrophe disappears once you hit enter But if you go back and click on the cell you'll be able to see that it is still applied now we can go ahead and go up to file and Save back in Adobe InDesign you'll want to select your hamburger menu once more and select update data source you'll see an image icon appear next to your image tag and all there's left to do is for you to select your image frame and Link it to your tag now when I hit preview here you'll see that I'm getting an air by InDesign saying that my images cannot be located this is due to the fact that I have my...