Merging documents

I'm having trouble merging documents in the documents file. I try dragging them to new location but they won't go. Help for a new mac user.

What documents are you trying to "merge" and what do you mean by "merge"?
Regards
TD

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Hello, hopefully someone can help. I am pretty new to InDesign but learning a lot. I am creating a member directory of about 200 pages (about 2800 records merged from .csv to InDesign 6). Everything is working fine with the merge, except generating the page numbers. I tried adding page number at the bottom of the page to the master BEFORE merging. But if I do that, it greys out the "multiple records per page" option when trying to perform the Data Merge (using "Create merged Document"). So, I tried adding the page number to the A-master AFTER creating the merged document, but the page number is not appearing on any of the pages. There must be a way to do this, can anyone help?
(FYI - to generate the auto page numbers, I am going to the Type-Insert Special Character-Markers-Current Page Number, and placing that within a text field at the bottom of the page. Thanks in advance. )

Here is a screen shot. I have placed it on the A-Master. See Screenshot#1. Screenshot #2 shows Page 70 with no page number (and no other pages have page numbers that I can see. Thanks for your advice on fixing....
Sorry, here is screenshot #2, (with personal details redacted but the records are there behind the grey boxes):

How can I update data fields in a merged document ?

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to update the values of data fields in a merged document with a script just as you can do with the user interface.
I don't find any method like "updateDataFields ()" in the DataMerge object.
Si I try to invoke the menu action "Update Data Fields", but it fails. The script error message is: "Error 53762, the script is not active." On the contrary, the action works if I use the interface.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance,
FredIsnard
PS : I work with CS5.5 and JavaScript.

Hi!
You might be looking for this one:
DataMerge.mergeRecords (outputOversetReportFile: File )
Merges records and produces an optional overset report.
outputOversetReportFile: Data Type: File
The path to the file in which to store the overset report. (Optional)
Best regards,
Andreas

Creating a merge document in Pages 09

In trying to learn how Pages operates, I have been looking at creating a Merge document using my Contacts Book. So far so good.
I am trying to get a list of names and addresses so that a round robin can be created, but in selecting the necessary fields to use I find they are all in the American terminology! When creating an input into Contacts, it is showing the UK method, i.e County and Post Code etc. but not when I go to Inspector and try and insert the field. Is there a way of changing the standard field name in the drop down menu?
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altv

It would appear that that hasn't been customised.
Apple apparently doesn't have enough cash in its kitty to do a lot of this basic stuff.
e.g. Apple has a so called "Australian" dictionary in Pages, that doesn't recognise Anzac amongst a host of Australian words. Why? Because it is nothing but the British dictionary relabelled.
Microsoft on the other hand…
If you want to ensure it looks right in Pages you can use the word Postcode in the text, select it:
Inspector > Link > Merge > Choose > Contacts Book > click on the + > call it Postcode > Link it to Work/Home ZIP
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Error in creating a Merge Document

Hello, I am creating a merge document and want to use a numbers doc for the data source. I created the numbers document and Saved it. Then created the pages doc. Went to inspector and choose the link, browsed to my numbers doc, selected it, then clicked open; I get an error that says:
Please select a numbers document that has one or more named header columns and one or more rows of data.
My only option is to click ok, which I do, then am bnack at using the address book for my data source.
What is wrong -- anybody?

Katfan,
Three most common errors:
. Field names not in the Header row (not just the top row, but the top row being a Header row).
. Table not being the first listed table for the Sheet in the Sheets Pane. It doesn't matter where the Table is on the Sheet, but if it's not the only Table on that sheet, it must be the First Table in the list for that sheet. You can drag the name to the top of the list.
. And finally, not Saving the Numbers file before Merging in Pages.
Jerry
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What is the registry key in Adobe Acrobat v9 which turns the dialog off: any form fields that have the same name in the merged documents are now...

what is the registry key in Adobe Acrobat v9 which turns the dialog off: any form fields that have the same name in the merged documents are now...

There is no key because that is an important dialog. Why would you want it to go away?

Electronic signature in merged documents?

I am trying to create a new document using multiple files. Some of these files contain electronic signatures. Can the electronic signatures be preserved in the merged document?

A digital signature applies to an entire document. If you somehow combine documents that contain digital signatures, any signatures cannot be verified since the document to which they apply has been changed.
You can add documents to a PDF as file attachments (aka embedded files), which is what you do when you create a portfolio. The individual documents can later be extracted and any signatures can be verified.

How do I create a merged document using information from Numbers?

I am new to using Mac and am trying to create a mail merged document. I do not seem to have the same options in my Inspector that are referenced in the tutorial I found online. Can anyone help?

That is because these are removed from Pages 5.
Pages 5 is a much cut down version from the previous Pages '09.
Pages 5 is designed to work better with the less featured iPad version.
Peter

CF 8 CFPDF "Merged" document throws 131 Error when opened in Acrobat

We are using CF 8 on Windows Server 2003 platform.
Any CFPDF "Merged" documents are throwing 131 Errors when opened in Acrobat
Tried re-saving the documents on local machine and still same problem. Tried opening in multiple versions of Acrobat, same problem.
Individual documents created are opening without issue. It is Only when these documents are merged that this error occurs.
We do not experience this behavior in our CF 10 environment.
We are a Big, Slow moving enterprise here so not much chance of getting our CF 10 environments promoted to meaningful production use soon.
Found virtually nothing in HelpX and nothing online of any value regarding this issue.
Has anyone else experienced the issue noted in the title of this discussion?
Has anyone a work around or solution?

I am getting the same error even in Acrobat version 8.1.3.
Additionally, I noticed that if we click on menu ‘Advanced->Sign&Certify->Preview Document’, then we get a notification as “This document is not PDF/SigQ compliant and may display inconsistently”. On clicking ‘View report’ on that notification, the below dialog pops up. It has errors listed as:-
Code 4000 : Unrecognized PDF content. The document contains PDF content or custom content not supported by the current version of Acrobat.
Code 4002: PDF content contains erros.
However, if we sign the PDF using default adobe signature functionality and reopen that PDF, the error does NOT come and the notification also says ‘This document is PDF/SigQ compliant’.
Can anybody please suggest what could be missing in the custom sign that we apply? Is it because of any of the missing fonts or any other resources?
Awaiting reply!
Regards.

Create data merged document with data on every second page?

Is it possible to create a data merged document with the variable data only on every second page?
I have set up the pages with the variable data as a master page (on every odd page) with the text box and paragraph style all set up, and I have set 'override master page items' so the data can be placed, but InDesign seems to freeze up when I try to create the merged document?

There should be no problem doing the merge with a two-page master and a two-page template document with fields only on one page (and off the top of my head there's no reason to move them off the master page if that's where you put them). I think the problem here is that rachrachm already has a file of 500 pages (based on another thread asking how to apply masters to every other page).
It's potentially possible to simply place the data file (without the header row) as a text file and auto-flow through the master page frames (can't say for sure without seeing the files), or if the pages without the merge fields are the same just, remove all but the first two pages from the template and do the merge.
As I metioned earlier, though, this is a very inefficient method of producing that sort of document. A true variable data print flow would be better (you'd need to find a commercial printer who can do it with your data file), or the home version would be to make one single page file for the static content, print 250 copies (plus a few extras, just in case), then make a single page merge template, do the merge, and print that on the back of the already printed pages, or as a separate page. It is immeasurably faster to print multiple copies of a document than it is to print a document that has multiple identical pages.

How do I convert mail merge documents to individual pdf docs and save each with a field in the merge?

How do I convert mail merge documents to individual pdf docs and save each with a field in the merge?

Is this an actual field, or just some piece of static text somewhere? Either way, you can't do it using the Split Document command. You'll need to use a custom-made script to read the value of this "field" and use it when extracting pages from the file.

Merging Documents - Fill in Form Fields Issue

I have a customer that is using Acrobat Professional 11.0
Here are the details - can she do this using the merge documents together function rather than having to do the documents separately?
When using the merge documents together function, form fields that are left to be filled in (date and time is when example), do not stay as fields once the PDF is created - they are now be populated with a number/letter combination (example: 28T)
This does not occur when the documents are converted to PDF's separately.
This functionality worked fine with the merge documents together feature in Acrobat Professional 10. What changed from one iteration of the software to the next?
What is the fix for this?
Please advise.

In short, you will need Acrobat to create the forms. They only need the free Reader to fill them in and save them.

Merged documents openxml mailmerge

I am a chemistry graduate and very new to programming, having learned everything from the Internet. I have a Word document with mail merge fields. The data source is an Excel file. I want to change the datasource Excel file dynamically and save the the merged
document in a new file.
public static void mergeDocs() {
string fileToOpen = @"D:\CSharpProjects\MailMerge\document.docx";
using (WordprocessingDocument wordDocument = WordprocessingDocument.Open(fileToOpen, true))
int mailmergecount = wordDocument.MainDocumentPart.DocumentSettingsPart.Settings.Elements<MailMerge>().Count();
Console.WriteLine ("Number of mail merges:{0}", mailmergecount);
MailMerge mymerge = wordDocument.MainDocumentPart.DocumentSettingsPart.Settings.Elements<MailMerge>().First();
mymerge.ConnectString.Val = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;User ID=Admin;Data Source=D:\\CSharpProjects\\MailMerge\\Data.xlsx;Mode=Read;Extended Properties=\"HDR=YES;IMEX=1;\";Jet OLEDB:System database=\"\";Jet OLEDB:Registry Path=\"\";Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=37;Jet OLEDB:Database Locking Mode=0;Jet OLEDB:Global Partial Bulk Ops=2;Jet OLEDB:Global Bulk Transactions=1;Jet OLEDB:New Database Password=\"\";Jet OLEDB:Create System Database=False;Jet OLEDB:Encrypt Database=False;Jet OLEDB:Don\'t Copy Locale on Compact=False;Jet OLEDB:Compact Without Replica Repair=False;Jet OLEDB:SFP=False;Jet OLEDB:Support Complex Data=False";
foreach
(var relationship in wordDocument.ExternalRelationships.Where(Rel =>
Rel.RelationshipType == "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/mailMergeSource"))
{ wordDocument.DeleteExternalRelationship(relationship); }
string DataPath = @"D:\CSharpProjects\MailMerge\data1.xlsx";
var dsRelationship = wordDocument.MainDocumentPart.DocumentSettingsPart.AddExternalRelationship("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/mailMergeSource", new Uri(string.Format("file:///{0}", DataPath)));
mymerge.DataSourceReference.Id = dsRelationship.Id;
mymerge.ViewMergedData.Val = true;
This changes the datasource, but I need to manually finish the merge and save the merged document. How do I automate this process?

Hi,
Mail Merge is a feature of Word, we can set up the mail merge configuration through OpenXML SDK. But we still need word to run mail merge process. So we are
not able to automate mail merge through OpenXML SDK.
To automate the mail merge, we need to use other technologies such as VBA or VSTO.
Here is a sample for your reference:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Office = Microsoft.Office.Core;
namespace ConsoleApplication
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
var app = new Word.Application();
try
app.Visible = true;
var doc = app.Documents.Open(@"C:\Drafts\test-file.docx", Type.Missing, false);
doc.MailMerge.OpenDataSource(Name: @"C:\Drafts\test.xlsx");
// when you choose xlsx as a datasource, a dialog will pop to ask you choose a sheet.
doc.MailMerge.Destination = Word.WdMailMergeDestination.wdSendToNewDocument;
doc.MailMerge.SuppressBlankLines = true;
doc.MailMerge.DataSource.FirstRecord = 1; // default first record
doc.MailMerge.DataSource.LastRecord = -16; // default last record
doc.MailMerge.Execute(false);
app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs2(@"C:\Drafts\output.docx");
}catch(Exception e)
finally{
app.Quit();
<THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED>
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How to merge documents in Pages

Hi,
My question is how do you merge documents the way you do in Microsoft Word 2008. I have two pages document I want to merge together without having to do it manually through copy and paste. I assume if there is way to merge documents in pages I could merge a pages document with a .doc document or another format that pages can open.
Thanks,
Vidhunter

Question asked and responded several times.
Only available soluce: copy paste
Copy paste the thumbnails to grab every items together.
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'10
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 5 février 2009 15:12:50)

How do u merge documents into one?

how do u merge documents into one?

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