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Importing from Excel

Importing from Excel - InDesign Tutorial

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Importing from Excel

- [Instructor] Of course you can create tables from scratch in InDesign and manually enter data in all of the cells, but that's kind of painful isn't it? And chances are, you're going to receive data either as a Word file or an Excel file, possibly a text file, hopefully not in a phone call. So I want to show you what happens when you import Word tables and Excel tables and the way you can control how they come in. So let's start by bringing in a Word file. Just go to File, Place, and in the lesson folder, just choose this file called Word Table. Just double click it, come in with a loaded cursor, just put it up there in the corner of the margin and click. Double click inside, there's your text cursor, and look, it's an editable table so it's just like it was created from scratch in InDesign and you can do whatever you want with it. Now, here's a scenario. You bring in this table, you painstakingly format it, it's beautiful, and just when you think you're done, they come back and say,…

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