Comments on: Use InDesign’s Data Merge Feature to Create Business Cards for Your Entire Office

By: lirik

lirik — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:12:09 +0000

great tutorial.. thanks for sharing.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:38:55 +0000

Awesome, this is going to come in handy real soon. You rock dude!

By: Grant Friedman

Grant Friedman — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:38:47 +0000

Walter, to do this all you need to do is create 1 card on the page. When you select the multiple layout option, InDesign will replicate the card on all the pages automatically. Just keep in mind that the dimensions of your card will have to allow enough space to replicate evenly throughout the page. Hope this helps.

By: Walter

Walter — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:56:21 +0000

Hi Grant. I am want to create a layout where there is 10 name cards per A4 page.

i ‘ve set it to multiple layout however it doesnt replicate itself on the A4 page, instead it creates that many amount of A4 pages i have on my list.

How do i solve this.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:19:58 +0000

InDesign data merge works awesome for anything that has variable data..postcards, letters, envelopes..Great tutorial! Thanks again.

By: Jeffster83

Jeffster83 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:58:59 +0000

Great tutorial! I wish you had published it a month ago; it would have saved me all the time I spent figuring it out myself. You confirm that I did it the right way.

Very similar to business cards, I made information cards for patients who have implanted heart assist devices. The cards are meant for EMTs to read. They give a description of the device, the cardiac emergency hotline, and the doctors’ phone numbers.

Thanks again!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:53:28 +0000

wow, that's a fantastic tutorial, made me think of how creative and efficient one can be when having to do this kind of thing. .-= Paul´s last blog ..Website Design: JQuery Animation Showcase =-.