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  1. buzfar

    How to remove carriage returns in Excel

    Hello; I am using a mac, os 10.5. Software is Excel 2008. I have a ton of data that has carriage returns in it. I need to convert this into a tab delimited file, and the returns mess up the sheet. I need a way to remove the returns in excel as an .xls before I convert it. Any solutions...
  2. buzfar

    InDesign CS3 Find and Change Glyph palette won't work

    Hello I have a "big book" that will have hundreds of pages. I need to change the curly quote symbol out to the double straight line quote symbol. I have tried to use the glyph palette to change these, but it will not work. It finds the curly quotes fine, but it SAYS it made the change, but...
  3. buzfar

    Acrobat Forms... PDF sends blank, pop-up response....

    Hello all; Tek-Tips has ALWAYS been a life saver for me, and I am hoping this holds true for Acrobat! Here is the scoop. I have created an Acrobat Form from a jpeg. I am using Acrobat 8 Pro v.8.1.2 I have created the form, no problem. However, when I set it to send data as a PDF, it sends a...
  4. buzfar

    Way to pull data from InDesign into excel or other source

    We are publishing a 240 page catalog, and have just realized that the data the index was created is way out of date. We have made tons of changes to the data in the InDesign document and now need to pull this data our of InDesign, into excel or some other way like this to be able to re-pour the...
  5. buzfar

    InDesign CS3, osx 10.5.3 won't ungroup

    Hello; I am using a mac and InDesign CS3. When I group something, it will not allow me to ungroup. This is trying both the short-cut command, Shift/Command/G and using the object drop down. Any idea why? Any solution? Thanks Allene
  6. buzfar

    Need a formula or other way to sort excluding the and a and an

    Hello there; This site has always been there for me on the InDesign side, and now I have found this. I am in need of a way to sort an excel document. I have a listing of book titles, over 1200 books, and need to sort on the title, but omit "the" "a" and "an" if the title begins with these...
  7. buzfar

    bitmapped images... .tif won't allow printing or exporting

    Hello there. I searched this forum and did not find a solution, so I am posting my question as this forum has always saved me in the past. I have created a document in CS2, then we upgraded to CS3. Now when I try to print or export to a pdf, the bitmap images, my .tif images, will hang the...
  8. buzfar

    Data Merge: image frame....not center, but bottom

    I am creating a catalog using Indesign CS2 and data merge. My issue is with the images. I do not want them to center, I want them to align to bottom. Any idea of how to do this automatically? Thanks
  9. buzfar

    Catalog or publishing plug-in for InDesign

    Hello and Happy New Year. I am at a company with 20k+ inventory and we yearly produce a big book catalog with all our inventory, twice a year we print an 80-100 pg catalog with just new items. We are wanting the following in our catalogs: Image of product Item # Description Price Bar Code...
  10. buzfar

    CS2 Mac, Glyphs... need more fractions

    Hello; This forum has always been such a life saver! Save me again! I am looking for glyphs for other fractions than what are normally there. What I am finding automatically is 1/4, 1/2 3/4. How can I get all the others? 1/8m 1/16, 7/8 and more???? Does anyone know of a way to do with...
  11. buzfar

    Make group text immune to scaling

    HELP! I am doing a catalog and have tons of grouped text (in its own text box) with iamges. The issue is when I resize them (using object>transform>scale) no matter what I do the text will stay resized using the same scale! Is there a way to make the text immune to scaling? Or if not...
  12. buzfar

    First Letter of Each Word Cap, as Par. or char. Style

    Hello; I am creating a catalog, and want to know if there is a way to create a character or paragraph style so that the 1st character of each word in the paragraph is capatilized, while the rest of each work remains lower case. Can anyone assist with this?
  13. buzfar

    Find/Change entire book

    Hello Is there a way to use find/change to search over an entire book, several documents included in this book? Thanks
  14. buzfar

    find/change highlight color options????

    Hello; I am revising a huge document and am wanting to change the highlight that comes with the find/change... right now it highlights it black.... and I am wanting something more obvious, b-4 my eyes fall out. Is there a way to change the highlight color using find/change? THANKS
  15. buzfar

    Pagination in multiple books

    Does anyone know if it is possible to continue pagination, style etc, from one book to another in CS2? Thank you
  16. buzfar

    Fit content to frame... automatically

    Hello; I am using InDesign, with InData to set-up a catalog... and I need to set something up automatically. I want the graphic object frame to automatically fit content to frame... leaving it as a blank graphics box on the template, or master page, the when InData pours then informaiton in...

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