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Ditto on Data Merge. Also, as long as we're dreaming, being able to link to TXT/tabular content from Google Docs and/or Google Sheets would be UH-MAZING!
 

Ditto on Data Merge. Also, as long as we're dreaming, being able to link to TXT/tabular content from Google Docs and/or Google Sheets would be UH-MAZING!
 

Ditto on Data Merge. Also, as long as we're dreaming, being able to link to TXT/tabular content from Google Docs and/or Google Sheets would be UH-MAZING!
 

I would buy a Data Merge utility product that integrated with publisher (and the other apps) if that is what it come down to otherwise I'll be left following and waiting for the feature before purchasing and learning. 

Data merging like a boss:
Merge from folders / files Merge csv, excel etc files Merge local databases (like Filemaker etc) Merge Google Sheets / Docs Merge SQL--databases (wordpress, woocommece.. etc)  

Truthfully, I've never heard of data merge before this but it seems so useful that it would be weird not to have it in a publishing application. You have my forum like... and my axe!

Ditto on Data Merge. Also, as long as we're dreaming, being able to link to TXT/tabular content from Google Docs and/or Google Sheets would be UH-MAZING!
 

Ditto on Data Merge. Also, as long as we're dreaming, being able to link to TXT/tabular content from Google Docs and/or Google Sheets would be UH-MAZING!
 

Ditto on Data Merge. Also, as long as we're dreaming, being able to link to TXT/tabular content from Google Docs and/or Google Sheets would be UH-MAZING!
 

Ditto on Data Merge. Also, as long as we're dreaming, being able to link to TXT/tabular content from Google Docs and/or Google Sheets would be UH-MAZING!
 

Definitely need data merge. Would be ideal to plug in a spreadsheet or csv/tsv file.

+1 for this. This was the first thing I looked for when I opened Publisher.

Yes Data Merge for filling up templates would be great. Our organisation has an REST-API which can e.g. deliver image urls and various other strings in JSON. Publisher would be great to automate process this data into beautiful templates which then can get printed. :)

Another here for data merge. We use it all the time in PagePlus.
 

Hello, one more vote for "data merge" tool like in InDesign. I use this function mostly for designing business cards and small catalogs, labels for boxes etc ... Everything, that have same desing and elements, that change always on same places and can be read frome some kind of database.

I use the data merge tool daily to create QR-codes in a batch or load data into a pdf. I think this is not present in the beta build?

Yes, I was hoping for that too. Microsoft publisher and Indesign have this. I want to create hundreds of study cards, but don't want to create each of them manually. 
 

I just downloaded the Publisher Beta. It seems super promising. The one thing I use a ton with InDesign though is data merging. I immediately looked for that in publisher but it is nowhere to be found :(. Please add this in.