Comments on: Making Mailing Labels in InDesign CS2

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:38 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial! Very enlightening.

Is there a way to create a merged document with multiple addresses on the same page (two-up) AND have two sides? I’m working on a two sided postcard and would like to have two postcards per Letter size page. InDesign doesn’t seem to let you select “Multiple Records” under “Records per Document Page” unless the document has no more than ONE page.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

By: thanky

thanky — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:36:47 +0000

Thank You! I used this to print 4k unique labels

By: Prashant

Prashant — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:26:05 +0000

how to make barcode. . like u did mailing lable . . like that i want make barcode for bulk data. .using indesign cs2. . could u please help me . . .

By: regz

regz — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:06:13 +0000

Hi,
just want to ask, how to resize same value of length and width in series photos using Indesign CS2? . Is there any Action like photoshop do?

By: ERIC

ERIC — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:23:00 +0000

I did it. I had the same problem as everyone else with the same record showing multiple times.

Just create a new document. Set up your margins. Create only 1 text box and make it the correct height and width and put it in position.

Then merge your document.

Just create 1 text box. That’s the key.

By: Paulo Norambuena

Paulo Norambuena — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:03:56 +0000

I’m having some problem usign CSV files. When I select the file usign Select Data Source, all I get is one unique header that inludes all the real headers existing in the CSV file. (Like this >.
If I use a comma-separated text It works ok. But I would like to use a CSV file so I can make corrections later and that’s much easier in an excel file than in a txt file.

By: kate

kate — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:29:02 +0000

argh I’m having the same problem as some of you - trying to do mailing labels with multiple records on one page, but it keeps repeating the same record! So frustrating! I thought the same as Gary about the 1,1,1,1 thing, but how the hell do I change to 1,2,3,4??? Help please!!!!

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:28:36 +0000

I am trying to merge Multiple names to one 8.5 x 11 sheet. I have tried several different ways, but with little success. I keep getting the same name all the way down the page. I have one text box with the name on the 4 x 3 labels. I click on the multiple labels option, but still get one namer per page and I need on name per label

By: Saule

Saule — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:35:40 +0000

Hi,
My questions is:

I am merging .csv file to an inDesign document. One csv column is a category name. I would like to apply a different font, depending on category. Is it possible?

Thank you,

By: Gary Dozier

Gary Dozier — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:46:31 +0000

In the Data Merge palette to the far right of each field that has been selected there is a number “1.” If a second window is set up, the “1″ changes to “1,1.” Every time an additional text window is set up, another “1″ is added to the numbers. I believe those numbers refer to the record number being accessed. I am trying to use a letter-size sheet of 80 labels to generate 480 VERY TINY labels (6 per actual label — I will manually cut). The 80 labels are in four columns of 20 rows. There is a border between columns, but not between rows. I have been successful in getting 240 tiny labels, but each is generated twice because I set up the target document with two tiny labels side-by-side. They each take the same record number. I need to find a way to make the first entry use record 1 and the second entry use record 2. [Sorry that this is so complex!] So that you fully understand the issue, picture a grid of 80 labels as I have described above — with a border between columns, but NO border between rows. Now divide EACH physical label into six tiny labels — two across by three down — and NO borders anywhere within this 6-label format. With two labels across, I can get three different records DOWN, but the same record across in each physical label. If you can follow this, I am already grateful. I believe there is some way to change those numbers in the data palette from multiple “1s” to “1,2,3…” so that in the format I have just described, I can get 6 unique records in six spaces, not three sets of 2. I will appreciate ANY help, suggestions, advice, guidance, prayers, mantras, whatever to help me in this matter. Thanks. VERY MUCH!!

By: Vadim Litvak

Vadim Litvak — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:10:13 +0000

Paul

You don’t really need Excel to Mail Merge. InDesign will easily accept a CSV (Comma Separated Values) Text file, which you can create with most text editors. There’s also a free open source download of an Office-like suite of applications at http://www.openoffice.org/

By: Paul Joannides

Paul Joannides — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:01:51 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for this tutorial. I find that most of the mailing lists come in an Excel format. Knowing nothing about databases, and even less about the Windows world, I wonder if you have any advice in how to get a mailing list in Excel into InDesign to print the labels? I don’t have Excel, but do have a Mac program called Mesa that apparently opens Excel files. Am working on a MacIntel Dual Core Mini with InDesign CS2. Thank you!

By: Dforteza

Dforteza — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:29:18 +0000

Well…my problem is not generating the barcode. I’m wondering how you get the postal office information that goes into the mailing barcode. Any ideas?

By: Vadim Litvak

Vadim Litvak — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:08:15 +0000

A quick Google search for “generate barcode” brought a number of links that could help lead to an online generator or a stand-alone application. Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript is an open source application that’ll let you generate your own barcodes or you can use it’s web-based front end to generate small numbers of barcodes online — it even generates the barcode in PS, EPS, JPEG, PNG and BMP file formats! If you’re looking for a plug-in for InDesign or Quark, try The Worldwide Power Company. There are a nunmber of plug-ins there, though they’ll cost you some $$$.

By: Dforteza

Dforteza — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:10:40 +0000

I have a pretty decent knowledge about data mergin in InDesign, but I haven’t been able to figure out how to print the USPS mailing barcode for bulk mailings, say, on a postcard.

Do I need a plug-in for this or how does one go about getting the information that goes in the barcode?