Press my all-time favorite keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E. Don’t freak out that you’ve cut off half of the text! Once the document is slightly smaller than the page, drag it over the right side master page. Resize the document to fit the page by Holding down Shift while you drag the top-left resize handle down. Instead, drop the image just outside the Master Page, You now have access to the resize handles. When you drop the image on the Master Page, you can not get to the resize handles. If you ever need to become a master at InDesign, you should hire Anne Marie. I am sharing a trick that I learned from Anne Marie “Her Geekness” Concepcion.
If you are new to InDesign, you would think you should drag-and-drop the image *inside the page*, but that would be wrong. ĭouble click on the right side of A-Master in the Pages Panelįrom Windows Explorer, drag the JPG from step 3 and drop it on the Paste Board that is outside of the Master Page. This is super important! Do not build the form on the left side of A-Master and do not build the form on. You need to build the form on the right-side of the A-Master page. You will see, but above it are two Master pages called and. But you are not! Press F12 to open the Pages panel. You would think that you are supposed to build your form there. Change the top margin to 0 and InDesign will make all margins 0.
Change the Units to Inches, Width to 11, Height to 8.5.
The first step in the New Document dialog is to click the second icon under Orientation to make your document landscape. Just make sure Acrobat Reader is showing the form at 100%. If you don’t, you can use the Snipping Tool in Windows to capture the form. If you have Acrobat, use File, Export To, Image, JPEG.
You would think the full version of Acrobat would offer a way to populate a form using a mail merge. This took forever, and when printed, the screen clippings looked horrible.įailed Attempt 2: Use Adobe Acrobat.
I was surprised that the best solution to this process is using Adobe InDesign! But first, let me recap my two failed attempts:įailed Attempt 1: I tried replicating form LS54 in Excel using a series of Screen Clippings to wrap around the cells that would contain the fields in Excel. While the process for doing a mail merge from Excel to Word has been documented at MrExcel ( ), can you do a mail merge from Excel to a PDF? How can you use Excel to prepare hundreds of such documents for your employees? The State of New York provides a blank copy of this form as a password-protected PDF. This means that millions of copies of form LS 54S or form LS54 – Notice and Acknowledgement of Pay Rate must be sent to workers. On January 1, 2018, the minimum wage in New York City increases to $13.50.