Hello! Maybe someone knows, I linked a table in indesign. With exelfailom, when I make changes in excel, everything is ok in the table, the info changes, but I lose the table style, I need to format it again, maybe someone knows how not to lose this style when changing the file in excel?

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March 19, 2025
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Hello! Maybe someone knows, I linked a table in indesign. With exelfailom, when I make changes in excel, everything is ok in the table, the info changes, but I lose the table style, I need to format it again, maybe someone knows how not to lose this style when changing the file in excel?

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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When you say "table style", are you referring to official styles or just the manually-applied formatting?

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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@NataliaVo

A workaround - AS LONG AS change in data in Excel WON'T change the "shape" of the table - width / height of the Cells - you could place an empty table - duplicate your current table, style edges / fills, delete contents - on a layer below and lock it.

BobLevine

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You need to either start using cell/table styles or do all the styling in Excel and place it as a formatted table.

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