

Thinking back, the common factor throughout my life was fear. Fearing that my parents could be deported I did not proceed to complete them and after class one day, I revealed to her that was undocumented. The applications asked for my parents social security numbers, and well, they nor I had a social security number at the time. My junior year a teacher who saw potential in me collected college and scholarship applications and asked me to fill them out and she would help me send them when it was time. In my high school years I often lied to friends about why I didn’t have an ID or driving permit to park in the student parking lot. I also felt shame and embarrassed if people knew my situation was different, as a kid, it was tough to comprehend these feelings.

I lived in the shadows, afraid that one day I could be deported and separated from my family. I had no choice when at 7 years old my parents immigrated to the United States in 1999 seeking a better life.Īt a young age I learned to not speak of where I was born or what our legal status in this country was. You can have reasons or you can have results and you can't have both. You can experience more in life if you'll get over the excuses and get on with living. So what if life hasn't been fair? What are you going to do about it today? Whatever you woke up with this morning stolen shoes, ill health, failed relationships, don't let it stop you from running your race.

This is a perfect reminder that you don't have to resign to the excuses that have held you back.

Wearing these shoes, Jim won two gold medals that day. But one of the shoes was too big, so he had to wear an extra sock. That's the pair that he's wearing in the photo. Luckily, Jim ended up finding two shoes in a garbage can. On the morning of his competitions, his shoes were stolen. It was the 1912 Olympics, and Jim, an American Indian from Oklahoma represented the U.S. Look closely at the photo, you can see that he's wearing different socks and shoes. Lucky for you, we have a tool that makes it very easy to merge multiple InDesign documents while avoiding some of these problems.This is Jim Thorpe. A lot could go wrong such as failure to incorporate all the data fields into the merged document. Merging multiple documents into one, as you can see from the tutorial above is not easy.
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Tips: How to Merge Multiple InDesign Files The problem with this process is that some of the data on the TXT or CSV file can be unavailable on the merged document. In the data merge panel, InDesign will create all the "variables" named in the CSV or TXT file. Step 4: Set the "Delimiter" and the "Encoding" used in your TXT or CSV file and then click "OK'. Step 3: Click on "Options" and the make sure "Show Import Options" is checked before selecting the file and clicking "Open'. Step 2: In the data merge panel that appears, click on the icon in the upper right corner and then choose "Select Data Source'. Step 1: Open the Data merge panel in InDesign by clicking on "Window > Utility > Data Merge'. Here's how you can import the data source file in InDesign: At the end of the process, the merged document contains the information from the target document repeated as many times as needed to accommodate the data from the CSV or TXT file. You also need the target document which can be an InDesign document that contains the data-field placeholders as well as other items that may remain the same as the merged document. This information can be in the form of fields and records and therefore a data-source file can be a CSV file or a TXT file. To merge data with an InDesign file, you need the data source file which often contains the varying information in each iteration of the target document. In this article we are going to look at some of the ways you can merge data in InDesign. This feature can be useful when you want to create hundreds of variations of documents like envelopes, mailing labels, and letters very quickly. You can merge various forms of data including CSV files or TXT files with InDesign documents. Merging a data file with InDesign lets you create multiple variations of the same document.
