Can you do a mail merge in Indesign?

Hi all, basically i have to create certificates with up to 200 names. The Certificate is created on the master page and then the relevent number of pages inserted. Then the time consuming part comes when i ahve to copy and paste 200 names individually.
is there a quicker way, maybe you can set a value in the master text box and have it populated from an exteranl file?? Something like a mail merge i guess?
Any ideas guys?
Thanks for any help.

RIch, it sounds like you are doing something wrong, unless you have that many records. You should not be getting more than one page per record in a job like this.
You have the option, alos of specifying a range of records to merge so you can break itinto more manageable chunks, or specify a range to print. That said, if you really have thousands of copies to print, Data Merge may not be the best solution. A real VDP module on the printer that can take a single page to RIP, then add the custom information on the fly from your database is a lot more efficient and would probably be cost effective if you do a lot of this kind of work (or you could send it out to someone who does).

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