Re: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point
Re: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point
- Subject: Re: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:21:56 -0600
> On Mar 7, 2019, at 10:18, Simon, Garry <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I just updated my Applescript Users account to a new email address, so if
> this was posted previously I apologize -
>
> I am trying to write a script that does a data merge of placeholders to text
> in an InDesign document. On the web I’ve found examples of scripts that merge
> text data with placeholders, but they don’t leave the formatting as it is in
> the original document. What I manually do now is take a customer document
> with text already in it, select the text, and merge it with a placeholder in
> the “Data Merge” tab. I need a script equivalent of this process. The main
> problem is the scripts I have found can’t assign the same insertion point as
> the original text, so the text flow gets screwed up. Is there a way to find a
> word’s insertion point?
Do you mean something other than “insertion point 1 of theWord”?
Steve via iPhone
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