Hi.
I'm pretty experienced with inDesign, and am familiar with data merge as well as some *light* scripts, so I'm not looking at getting a step by step so much as a point in the right direction, I just really can't wrap my head around this specific issue.
The end result I want is just a simple program guide, the current designer has made it using tabs however I would think a table would work better for automation (?)
Here's how it will look:
But here is how I receive the info:
@restaurant
@centre:Bonsor
@normal:F, January 19
@normal:11am-2:30pm
@centre:$9.65
@normal:456692
It's an export from some program, comes as plain text and they currently have someone fix it up in Word THEN put it into indesign, I am to obsessive about automation to do this in such a crazy way. Let's assume we I can't get the exported info to change, I wonder if I can automate something to break this into a table, then use the table with datamerge? Or am I stuck just copy and pasting until they change the work flow?