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Re: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point
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Re: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point


  • Subject: Re: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point
  • From: "Simon, Garry" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:09:55 +0000
  • Thread-topic: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point

Hi Steve,

“insertion point 1 of theWord” doesn't seem to get me data I can coerce to the
insertion point needed, and in any event, I can't figure how to isolate a word
and assign a placeholder to it.


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    Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:21:56 -0600
    From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
    To: "email@hidden"
        <email@hidden>
    Subject: Re: InDesign Data Merge Text Insertion Point
    Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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    > On Mar 7, 2019, at 10:18, Simon, Garry <email@hidden> wrote:
    >
    > Hello Everyone,
    >
    > 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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