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7. The Menus / 7.4 The Layout Menu

### 7.4.30 Text/Serial Document

In order to create a serial document, you need a CSV-file containing the data to use in the serial document. CSV is the abbreviation of "Comma Separated Values". Don‘t take this "Comma" to literally. Other characters can be used as separator, too. A simple CSV-file may look like this:

"Address","Last Name","First Name"

"Mr","Doe","John"

"Mrs.","Doe","Jane"

Each line is a data set which will be used in the serial document. The first line has a special meaning as it defines the data fields contained in a data set.

Nearly every database can export CSV-files.

The first step in creating a serial document is opening the dialog Serial Document. Path of Address Data is the location of the CSV-file. The easiest way to enter it is to use the button Choose.

After that, Data Sets is listing the data sets found in the file. By placing or removing a checkmark beside a data set, you can select the data sets, that shall be inserted in the serial document.

In Data Fields the fields of a data set are listed. Selecting a field name and clicking Set inserts this field name as keyword in the active text layer.

By clicking Create Serial Document a new document will be created. For every data set checked in Data Sets the pages of the active document will be copied to this new document and all keywords will be replaced by the corresponding content of the active data set.