I have a proposal that will have variable data in it and needs to stay editable. I created the document in InDesign and not sure what program I can use to create the interface in.
What I want is to set up an interface that either I or someone in my office fill out or select certain items they want in the proposal and it creates a document (that is still editable, just in case there are a few tweeks they want)
The variable data would include the basics such as:
Client/Company name
Address
etc.
They also want to be able to select a menu of "benefits" to pick from.
For example the interface would say:
What benefits would you like to include in proposal?
X Benefit A
Benefit B
X Benefit C
X Benefit D
Benefit E
Then the ones with the "X" would appear but not the rest.
Certain verbiage they use such as "customer or member" depending on what type of business they are writing the proposal for. For example:
What type of company?
A ....(verbiage would be customer)
B ....(verbiage would be member)
C ....(verbiage is customized)
Then there is some pages that will include math:
Product name prod $ (won't change) qty total investment
Is this even possible?
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Ok discovered Conditional Text....very cool. So that answers the verbiage question.
Is it possible to create a dreamweaver page, import that into excel and then run a data merge or am I over thinking it....even bigger question is it too complicated for someone else to do?