InDesign: Create mail merge - how it works

With Adobe InDesign you can also easily create a form letter. In this practical tip we will show you how.

Create a form letter with InDesign

1. First open the word processor Excel and enter all the address data of your form letter in columns. The columns can e.g. B. are: First name, last name, street, postcode and town. This file serves as a data source.
2. Now switch to InDesign and click on "Window Utilities".
3. Select the entry "Data Merge" there. Afterwards you have to click on "Select data source".
4. Then search for the file you just created and enter it there.
5. The data is then transferred to InDesign.
6. With a click on "Merged document" the data is inserted.

We will show you how to count characters and words with InDesign in the next practical tip.