InDesign: Data Merge and Database Publishing

- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm David Blatner and this is InDesign Insider Training: Data Merge and Database Publishing. All of us awash in information and in order to make sense of it all, we have to present it in an easy-to-understand visual style. In this title, I'm going to show you how to automate the process, taking raw data from a spreadsheet or a database and applying formatting to it quickly. I'm gonna focus on a database publishing tool built right into InDesign called Data Merge. I'll also discuss the limitations of Data Merge and I'll explore some other, more powerful third-party options too.

I'll start with the simple example of name tags which illustrates all the basics you need to know. Then, we'll look at making a flier that requires frequent updating. And then I'll show you how you can make a more complicated directory, hundreds of pages long. So come on, let's see how it's done.