Comments on: Making Mailing Labels in InDesign CS2

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:45:53 +0000

Thank you! I’ve read a ton of tutorials on the data merge for mail labels…and just could not get it to work without one label on each document…start to finish with your tutorial and the job is DONE!!! there was one little glitch with what I was doing that I could not get past! But, starting from scratch this way without the label template WORKED!

By: Sue (2nd email address)

Sue (2nd email address) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:41:06 +0000

P.S. So far, the only way i’ve been able to merge the files into a table is to create a document which creates a new page for each new record. Then I cut and paste the table rows from each separate page back into one table. Not very efficient whatsoever, so won’t be doing that.

What am I missing in the thinking process?

By: Sue (2nd email address)

Sue (2nd email address) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:41:19 +0000

I am trying to data merge product information into an InDesign CS2 table for future ease in editing long documents. I keep getting the same info repeated with each row in the table, similar to people above mentioning above with their mailing labels. The difference is that I want to data merge into an InDesign table rather than into a simple text box.

I can get it to work properly if I define one text box at the top of the chart, but then I end up with a ton of separate text boxes. I’d rather have them end up in the cells of the ID table. That way, I can navigate within the final document’s table, rather than a bunch of small text boxes.

Is this possible or am I making ID think beyond it’s capabilities?

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:39:48 +0000

Is this possible or am I making ID think beyond it’s capabilities?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:39:29 +0000

Jeremy,

This is a late response, but I did a project like this awhile back and realized that the reason is because the sides wouldn’t match up with each other on each side. You have to manually move the columns/rows to be opposites so the proper records line up with each other. Does that make sense? I think I ended up doing two merged documents and then printing the sides separately (or at least inserting the pages from one to the other document, alternating their placement, of course).

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!!