I would like to know if it is somehow possible to search for empty entries after Data Merge is completed?
The 'Entries' are shown with Hidden Characters visible as you can see in attached screenshot:
I can copy those and insert into the Find/Change window but nothing can be found. I think these are not real hidden characters.
remove blank lines for empty fields before data merging
I'm creating a catalog, using data merge in InDesign CS5.5 for the first time. I'm using dummy data to start, naming the products with a naming convention Product 1, Product 2, etc.
Everything seemed to be working, but then I noticed that the merge is all jumbled, such as:
Page 1 has Product 15 repeated, with the product description, price and other information from product 6. This repeats five times down the first page.Page 2 starts with Product name, price and number for Product 7, but the description for product 6. Continuing on page 2, everything seems one off. Product names mixed with data from the next product. Page 3-15 are the same as page 1, all Product 15 with the description for Product 6.
In short, this is very weird. I am saving the data in a CSV comma deliminated (also tried text with tab delineations.) I don't think there are any text breaks in the data, nor blanks. The odd thing is also that the preview looks perfect before I merge the document.
Here's Page 1:
Here's page 2:
By the way, all numbers (except pupil price) relay the product number. For example, Product 1 has a price of $1.00, an item number of H1, and the description "This is product 1".
First i got a big Adobe InDesign File where I already have designed a catalog. It's made through tables.
It looks like this:
So here's my problem. The article numbers are already filled in. And I have a .csv file with 3 different colums. Art.Number, StandardPrice, DaliPrice It looks like this:
So now i want to import only the prices from this file, because the article numbers are already filled in. If i try to import the .csv file through data merge --> create merged document i am not able to choose this field which i marked blue (dataset). I don't know why... maybe i have to format my csv file different?
And also if i try to show the preview it only takes the data from the first line in my csv file. So somehow i have to merge the fields from the csv file with the article number which is already in my indesign file.
All those fields who look like this------>
are from an plugin which is calls easy catalog... but i think i won't need this plugin... i am sure it's also possible with data merge.
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