Data merging and making labels. I'm stuck...

Dear indesigners,
I've got a question concerning data merging.
I've been asked to create labels for a showroom.
I received an excel file with more than 9000 items.
- At first I tried to save the file as CSV. The CSV file unfortunately didn't work for me.
Instead of creating a comma-separated file it created a ";" separated file.
This is an issue because I live in Europe apparently…
- After that problem I just exported the file as a "Tab separated text file" and that worked fine.
I set up the indesign file and the data merging went completely fine.
But here comes the challenge:
When I create a "merged document" all labels get placed underneath eachother in a new file. That's perfectly normal.
But the marketing team from the company I work at wants to be able to create labels for each item they sell.
The items change a lot so it has to be printed "in house" on pre sliced sticker paper.
I was wondering if there was a way to get several labels on 1 A4? how do I set this up?
Im really stuck here
At first I was asked to print the labels from a DYMO printer. But that was a horrible experience… that didn't work at all.
All help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Hensels

You can specify a range of records to merge, or individual records. To make it easier to identify the record numbers you can add a column for them if you like (just remember they don't update automatically if you add, remove, or move rows around in the spreadsheet), or you can read the row number in Excel and subtract 1.

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Fellow Countrymen (and women),
I work as a graphic designer for a large outlet chain retailer which is constantly growing our base of centers. This growth has brought a workload that used to be manageable with but two people to a never ending sprint with five. Much of what we do is print, which is not my forte, but is also generally a disorganized, ad-hoc affair into which I am wading to try to help reduce overall strain.
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