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The first thing I will do is select the “Example Serial Number” field from the drop down menu then click “Insert Print Merge Field”. You have the option of editing the print merge settings, selecting a field, insert print merge field into document, preform the print merge or to merge to a new document by clicking the corresponding buttons. This is the menu you will receive once the print merge wizard has finished. This menu can be snapped in place or can float over your document for quick access. You will now have access to a new toolbar, which can be seen above the document, titled “Print Merge”. Since we will not cover that in this tutorial, you can ignore that and press “Finish” to finish the setup. We will not talk about creating data connections in this tutorial, but if you wanted to refer to the same data source at a future date, you can save the settings we just set, to allow ease of use later. If everything looks good, press “Next” to continue. You will have issues with missing numbers if again, the headings for the columns were not set out correctly. This next step is to double check your records, making sure they are in the right order and that all of them are present. If your field names are correct and in the right order, you can press “Next” to advance to the next step. Please refer to the first image, to see how your document should be set out. If you see actual data in these fields, it means you have not created a file with column headings. This step is relatively important you should see the name of each of the columns listed as field names. Once you select the file, press “Next” to advance to the next step.

Please make sure to select the file type as “Comma separated File (*.csv)” from the drop down menu, otherwise you will not see the file you are looking for in the list. Click the “Browse” icon to the right of the “File” text box or alternatively type the absolute path in the textbox provided. The second step is to locate the file source, this is the CSV file we created earlier. Please make sure that “Import text from a file or an ODBC data source” is selected before pressing “Next”. Next we will be greeted with this dialog box, this will guide us through the process of print merge.

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This file, plus all other files we use for this tutorial can be downloaded Here Select Print Mergeįirst step to create a print merge document is to navigate to “File”, then down to “Print Merge” then click on “Create/load Print Merge” as shown in the image above. This document will stay the same, only the print merge data will change. This is the file we will be editing with dynamic data from the CSV file we made. Alternatively you can right hand click the file and press “Properties” to check the file type. This can be done by checking the file type which is listed on the right hand side of the file name, in this case it should be “Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values File”. CSV file, as using other file types will not work for this tutorial. Check File TypeĬheck to see that your file is in fact a. You may get a warning message like pictured above. This will mean your values are separated by commas as explained before. This should be set to “CSV (Comma delimited)”. When you are greeted with this dialog box, you must make sure to select the correct “Save as type”. Firstly click on “File” then click “Save as”.

These heading will define the data later for Corel’s print merge feature.Īfter you have your document set out with all the information you will need for Corel to import, it’s time to save your file. NOTE: Each column has its own heading which I have highlighted in yellow, this is important and must be done. Each of these columns will be a different fields we can manipulate in Corel later. There are three fields each separated into their own column. Here you can see some example data that I have generated. Each value is separated with a comma so other programs will know where one part of the data start and ends.įor this tutorial we will work with Microsoft Excel 2013 to generate some example data to test Corel’s print merge feature. CSV stands for comma separated values, which refers to the way the data is structured in the file.

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This feature is extremely flexible and can be used in a variety of ways, but for this tutorial we will be learning how to print merge text from a CSV file.Ī CSV file can be generated in a multitude of ways, most software applications will have the option to export a database or report as a CSV file. In this tutorial we will learn how to use CorelDraw X7’s print merge feature.