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2008-10-06T11:46:03

Save your spreadsheet as a UTF-16 text file to merge Japanese characters.

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-07-16T12:27:23

Instead of adding paragraph breaks in data fields, create two separate fields, such as Address1 and Address2. If individual records don't have an Address2 field, you can have InDesign delete the blank space automatically. I know that's easier said than done with certain data sources, but you'll get much better results with InDesign's data merge feature.

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macsavers — 2008-07-16T11:20:35

This feature works great if you don't have paragraph breaks in your data. But
if you add just one paragraph break, irregardless of it being within the
quotes of a comma-separated document, it will NOT handle the data
properly. This one problem completely derailed a project intended for
InDesign and cost us over 3k to resolve by another means.

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2008-05-04T09:19:33

I couldn't find a way to import Unicode files (containing Latin-1 and
Japanese characters). It just refuses to load such files.

What is strange is that if one tries to load (on a Mac) a source file encoded in
Mac OS Roman, checking the tick box "Import options" one will get asked
whether the file is Unicode or not.

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2008-01-15T11:10:27

To add and end-of-line to data (equivalent of shift + enter key), you need to enter  

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2007-12-10T08:25:51

Good point. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to add a newline (end-of-line) character to a data merge field. I'll do some research to come up with alternatives.

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workhorse_intl — 2007-12-08T05:34:58

ADDITION

If it is possible to include "newline" (or "") characters in a text field, mention of that capability (or the lack of it) on this page would be useful. If it does exist, links to where the description of that capbility resides would be useful. If it does not exist, mentioning it here would stop me from spending time searching for it elsewhere in the documentation.

Alternatively, if the only way to embed "newline" is through the XML merge capability, mentioning it here and linking to the root of the XML merge option discussion would be very useful.