Indesign linked tables-2018 not holding paragraph and character styles when link updates

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November 21, 2017
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Good day,

I am designer working on a very large catalog with a number of outside marketers making changes to an excel document to keep the catalog current. I set up paragraph, character styles and table/cell styles according to the tutorials and all of the forums and examples say that the formatting should hold. It doesn't. I have tried multiple ways of doing it. Is there something basic I am missing in the new update? Like a box that needs to be checked? Or is the only true way to do it is buy an outside plug in?

Kendall

indesign linked tabkes

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Mike Witherell

Community Expert

As Bob said, placing unformatted is the way to operate. Also, making your hierarchy of Table and Cell Styles carefully--without use of the Type Tool in any table text--is the best way to make faultless Table and Cell Styles. That is something that few tutorials ever mention.

Mike Witherell