InDesign How-To: Use Data Merge in a Table Using a Script (Video Tutorial)

In this InDesign how-to video, Chad Chelius demos a script that lets you use data merge within a single table. Taken from his popular scripts session at CreativePro Week 2020, he uses the CSV2Tables script to add functionality missing from InDesign’s native data merge feature.

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[doloresknox]

Thank you for this video and the script writer. This was an absolute lifesaver. Used in Indesign 2023 and worked wonderfully. A job that would have taken 1-2 days done in an hour. Magic

[travshirt]

This is an absolute life-saver, thanks so much for this video and to the friend of yours who made this!
Also, despite it being old and not updated for more than 10 years, it still works flawlessly. Kudos!

[mmitchellhouston]

This is brilliant. I will test this evening to see if it works with my older version of InDesign.

[herosilk]

Can we take the pictures on one page to the right and one page to the left?

[jamesoldman]

Any idea how to get InDesign to run when this script has locked up InDesign? My problem is I cannot open InDesign anymore as it is trying to check for errors and just keeps running. Have to force closure.

[kislo]

Hello, I have a problem with the use of images, I have this error: "ReferenceError: Object is invalid 102".

[jacobgonzales]

Is this Script still working? When trying to run it I get and alert saying "ReferenceError: Object is invalid 102"

Not sure if I am setting up something wrong or the script is no longer supported. Running the latest version of InDesign 2024 on Win 11 Pro

[RaTedym]

Does anyone have an updated link to the script? The link seems to busted?

[bhavnishkanojia]

This is nothing about scripting. All tools to do that are available in inDesign itself.