How to Relink Individual Excel Cells to a Different File in InDesign Without Losing Cell Links

Question

I have many individual cells from an Excel file linked in my InDesign document and I would like to relink them all to a different Excel file that has the exact same structure. Does anyone know of a good way to update which file is feeding the data while still keeping the links to specific cells in place?

Mike Witherell · Answer

Edit > Preferences > File Handling > Links > Create Links When Placing Spreadsheet Files

Afterward, your Excel document shows up in the Links panel.

You can therefore re-link to another excel file.

Another approach would be to learn how to use Data Merge in InDesign:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/data-merge.html

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