Voila! You’ve successfully placed your Excel spreadsheet in InDesign. You want the spreadsheet to be separate from your other text frames for the time being, so click anywhere on a blank page or on your pasteboard to place the spreadsheet. Now your mouse pointer will be loaded with your Excel spreadsheet. Your Cell Range will be different than shown below, but no need to worry about it. The settings shown below are the default settings, and they are fine. Next you’ll see the Microsoft Excel Import Options dialog box. Make sure the Show Import Options box is checked, then click Open. Choose File>Place (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd+D), then browse to select your Excel file. Click anywhere outside of any existing text or image frames to make sure nothing is currently selected. To import your Excel spreadsheet into an InDesign document, first open your InDesign document and choose the Selection Tool. Get started importing from Excel into InDesign
And, because spreadsheets and tables rarely import into InDesign looking like they did in Excel and Word, we’ll give you a few tips on the easiest way to get started.
Have you tried importing from Excel into InDesign? In Book Design Made Simple we walk you through importing tables from Word, but importing a spreadsheet from Excel is a bit different so we’ll walk you through it here.
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