prepressRob
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Not my usual forte, but I've done data merges using Word quite a bit over the years and a few times using Indd. Currently have a large business card order, Indd files, and an xlsx spreadsheet. Am I correct that out of the box Indd will only accept csv or tabbed text files for data merge? I can find no find no info on this searching the help files.
Specific issue I'm having is that in zip codes that begin with zero, the zero falls off. It's in the original xlsx file (the field is formatted as text, not numeric), but when exporting to csv or txt it disappears. Perhaps further complicating the issue, the data file has to be worked on PC (old version on the Mac won't open it), and Indd file is Mac. Currently using InDD CS5, have and tried CS5.5 but that had even more issues.
Any thought on how to sort this are greatly appreciated. Short of that, I'm thinking I'll have to go ahead and export the PDF, then add the missing zeros record by record in Acrobat/PitStop. I've sorted them and there are 414 total - really not looking forward to that a whole lot . . .
Specific issue I'm having is that in zip codes that begin with zero, the zero falls off. It's in the original xlsx file (the field is formatted as text, not numeric), but when exporting to csv or txt it disappears. Perhaps further complicating the issue, the data file has to be worked on PC (old version on the Mac won't open it), and Indd file is Mac. Currently using InDD CS5, have and tried CS5.5 but that had even more issues.
Any thought on how to sort this are greatly appreciated. Short of that, I'm thinking I'll have to go ahead and export the PDF, then add the missing zeros record by record in Acrobat/PitStop. I've sorted them and there are 414 total - really not looking forward to that a whole lot . . .