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1. #DATA MERGE INDESIGN CS5.5 FULL#
2. #DATA MERGE INDESIGN CS5.5 PLUS#
3. #DATA MERGE INDESIGN CS5.5 SERIES#

Note the total number of rows in the Table panel. Select the entire table in the second text frame (by clicking in the top left). To combine these into one table AND link them across the three existing text frames I do the following (bear with me):Ģ.

#DATA MERGE INDESIGN CS5.5 FULL#

Let’s say you have a large data set, three A4 pages each with their own separate full page table. I have an extension to Branislav and Michael’s method. But the individual cells of that “nested” table then have to be selected, edited and formatted independently of table into which it’s been pasted.

#DATA MERGE INDESIGN CS5.5 SERIES#

You can also paste an entire table into one cell of another table if, for example, you wanted to avoid creating a complex series of merged cells in an otherwise simple table. Many things could trip you up on this - such as the presence of merged cells in either the source or destination table - but if your two tables aren’t too complex, it does work. And it will work with columns, too…but first you need to create (insert) the “placeholder” rows/columns you need so that what you copy from the source table has somewhere to go in the destination table. Cut or copy those rows, then select the three empty rows you created in the destination table and paste in the rows from the source table.Īgain…this is a simple method for simple tables. First, add three rows to the destination table, then select the three rows from the source table by either dragging through all the cells in all three rows or selecting all three rows when you get the InDesign arrow cursor that selects whole rows or columns. Let’s say you have a table of three rows and four columns (the source table) that you want to include in a table with any number of rows, but also with four columns (the destination table). I use quotes because it’s not really a true merge function, but it will put all the data into one table. And any excuse to play around with and familiarize yourself with the power of InDesign Tagged Text is worth exploring.īut there may also be a way to “merge” two tables more simply, provided the tables themselves are fairly simple. That’s a great “tinkering under the hood” solution - I love that sort of thing. ) I don’t guarantee this trick it’s clearly playing with fire, but you can cook up some great results! If it still doesn’t work after you try 3 times and you can’t figure out what you’re doing wrong, you can email me. If it still doesn’t work, take a look at the sample files I put here. The tables should be merged! If it doesn’t work, try again. (But leave the angle bracket before “RowStart”, of course!)įinally, save your new document (I suggest saving it with a new name so you can go back to the original if you make a mistake) and import this text file into your InDesign document using File > Place. To merge the table, delete all the text from the TableEnd tag (including the angle brackets around it) and ending just before the next “RowStart” tag. That signifies the… well, I think you can get that one.

#DATA MERGE INDESIGN CS5.5 PLUS#

Change the number of rows to the total (this table plus the second table).

That means this table has two rows and four columns. For example, it may appear like this: “TableStart:2,4:0:0”. Is this for the faint of heart? No! But it’s fun to know you can do it.įirst, search for the text “TableStart:”. So if you put two tables in a row and export them as tagged text, you can tweak the codes to merge them into a single table. (I say “virtually” because I haven’t tested everything and I bet there are some things - such as anchored objects? - that just won’t handle the conversion to tagged text well.) Tables are part of a text flow, and they are converted into tagged text well. Virtually anything you can put in a text frame you can express with tagged text.

Now open that file in a text editor, such as NotePad, TextEditor, or TextWrangler. The best way to see what tagged text looks like is to select some text in InDesign, choose File > Export, pick InDesign Tagged Text from the Save as Type (or Format) popup menu, and save it to disk. You can think of tagged text as being like HTML: It’s a way to describe text formatting using codes. Tagged text is an often-overlooked feature in InDesign, but it lets you do all kinds of cool things to text. The good news is that you can do it outside of InDesign! The trick? Tagged text. The bad news is that there is no way to merge two tables together in InDesign. Sharon wrote: Is there any way to merge two tables into a single table?