How can I export data merge table

[Inamini]

Hello experts!

Can someone tell me how to export my design with the data merge table? When I export I don't see the table I created. 

I hope you understand my question. 

 

Greetings from the Netherlands from Ina. 

 

[walt.farrell]

Sorry, but I don't quite understand, Ina.

I will assume by "data merge table" you're referring to the Data Merge Layout Tool. It will produce something that looks like a Table, into which you would insert the names of the Fields you want to insert from your Data Merge Source file.

Then, when you perform the Data Merge, those fields from the records of your Data Merge Source file will be inserted into the output file created by the Data Merge. 

But in that output file, you do not (if I remember correctly) actually have a Table. You have the merged data, laid out as you had it in the Data Merge Layout. 

Does that help explain what you're seeing?

If not, perhaps it will help you refine your question, or perhaps you can give us some screenshots to help us better understand what you mean  

[Inamini]

Hello Walt, thanks for taking time to answer my question. In the meanwhile I discovered that it is a tool, not a real visible table. So I made a table by using the pen.

Greetz, Ina. 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome, and thanks for the added info.

[lacerto]

5 hours ago, Inamini said:

So I made a table by using the pen.

You can also place a table on the master page of the data merge layout document that matches the Data Merge Layout setup (number of rows). The data merge fields can be defined by using tab stops (or separate, field specific text boxes), and when merged, data would not be actually within table cells but in multiple text frames just outlined by the table on the master page, but visually the result looks as if data were laid out in a table. 

 

 

data.xlsx

datamerge_table.afpub

datamerged.afpub