How to Link Text to InCopy and Tables to Excel in InDesign Without Losing Links

Hi @annikab88051026 ,

you say: "I get it to work but when I try to thread the frames the link to Excel dissapears."

Exactly. That's also my experience. Even if you have your text cursor set between some text and try to place and link the Excel file you end up with a table that is placed but not linked.

Tested with InDesign 2024 version 19.5.0.84.

So instead of threading the frame with the table to another text frame just anchor it to an insertion point if you like to flow the placed and linked table with other text contents (if that's possible, because the table is not that long and will not break between text columns or text frames).

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

Links are to "single" files - the same reason you can't link Rectangle Frame to multiple images.