Preparing Data Sources, Part 1: Getting Data to InDesign

Performing a data merge begins by prepar­ing the data source and mak­ing sure your data is in the cor­rect format.
Problems with Data Merge almost always come down to some­thing isn’t for­mat­ted prop­er­ly in the Data Source. Pay close atten­tion to this clip to pre­vent errors and show-stopping issues from crop­ping up in your VDP publications.

Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s com­pre­hen­sive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://​abbrv​.it/​v​i​dIDVDP