Can also happen through a field name becoming corrupt.A wrong database has been selected as a data source or.The data merge field names that are already placed in the InDesign file can’t be found in the database that has just been linked to. This typically appears when updating a data source, rather than starting a new data merge project from scratch. There is a least one data placeholder that cannot be found in the data source.
Make sure that the file isn’t open in Excel, and if it is still open then close the file and try again. It tends to fool users as it refers to “rights” and can often have users scrambling for their IT expert or administrator asking all sorts of “permissions” questions, when the likelihood is that this isn’t the cause. This error tends to happen if the file has been exported from Excel as a CSV or TXT file, but has not been closed from Excel. See also: Using Data Merge to Create a Table for a Directory The data source cannot be opened. In that situation, those extra tabs at the end of the lines must be removed.
This is shown by opening the text file in an application such as TextWrangler (the tabs show up as triangles): Unfortunately, when exported from Microsoft Excel as a tab delimited text file, Excel still treated the columns as if they did contain information. Lastly, columns F and G look like they are not in use, but at one stage they did contain data but the information was removed manually. In this instance, column B should be removed. Similarly, column B is completely blank, but so far as InDesign is concerned, it is a field that has no field name, and just has blank records. The Surname field (D1) is missing its field name. When creating a database for a Data Merge, all of the fields in the header row MUST be named. This relates to a field name in the header row being missing. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.
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