How can I find my mail merged InDesign document?

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Published on 2010-04-29T21:36:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 9:47 UTC
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I created a mail merge using InDesign, and it looked like it went through all of the records but (1) I can't find the option to export to pdf and (2) I can't find the merged file anywhere on my system at all. Where is it?

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