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July 18, 2023
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how to link excel sheet inDesign

  • July 18, 2023
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Hi, I work at a compane in Argentina, that sales products with a catalog made it with plublish online InDesign (you can visit it: https://indd.adobe.com/view/7a0ac1a5-d5ac-402c-84ea-eebcbba73591 )

The problem is that we constantly change prices because of the economic inflation in the country.

I've been reading about link an excel sheet data to ID. 

Does anyone has a plugging or some advise to improve this cataloge designe?

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Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 26, 2023
  1. Go to Preferences
  2. THere in File Handling
  3. Activate the option to Link Word and Excel sheets.
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
July 18, 2023

You can't link Excel sheet directly - it won't work in your case. 

 

You need a tool to build catalogs FROM Excel spreadsheet, tool that will "link" your TextFrames with prices with data in the Excel. 

 

There are plugins - and there are scripts - each solution have pros and cons. 

 

Participant
July 26, 2023

Thank you very much for response!

I found the specific way to do it with chat GPT !