Comments on: Importing iWork or Excel or Anything Else Into InDesign

By: Jim MacCormaic

Jim MacCormaic — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:19:06 +0000

For one glorious moment I thought I’d stumbled on the holy grail with regard to getting gorgeous Numbers graphs into InDesign. It seems, though, that my version of Number no longer saves files as packages, so your recommended technique doesn’t work.

I did manage to copy from Numbers and paste into Illustrator. After deletion of several extraneous bounding rectangles I was left with the Numbers graph as a filly editable vector. The nice Numbers drop shadow didn’t carry over, however, so I had to settle for adding drop shadow in Illustrator, which is acceptable but not great.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:12:01 +0000

Hi, Karen, I saw this old conversation and am looking for a designer who can work in numbers…is that something you do?

By: Glenn Kramer

Glenn Kramer — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:23:55 +0000

The next version of InDesign should have graph-making tools. I can dream, can’t I?

By: António Martins-Tuválkin

António Martins-Tuválkin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:04:00 +0000

Using InDesign CS (=3.0) here, with MS Excel 2002. Had tried unsuccessfully with direct copy+paste (OLE2?) and then with a middle step in CorelDraw 9 (exporting different vectorial formats). Then I found this post and exported/printed from Excel using CutePDF: It worked flawlessly as I imported/placed into InDesign. Thumbs up!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:46:15 +0000

Thanks for that link, Jonas. Curiously, that is one of my CS3 videos from lynda.com, which someone must have pirated and put up on youtube! I wonder how many more of my videos have been "liberated" up there. Sigh. But of course, it's much faster to find this information by actually subscribing to lynda.com or buying Real World InDesign.

By: jonas

jonas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:45:53 +0000

I found this link which answered my question.

: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8SwOUNpjB8

enjoy!

By: jonas

jonas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:04:19 +0000

I would like to know how to import an excel document into Indesign and have the parameters updated Indesign when I change the original excel file.
I want it to work just as it works if I change my original in Photoshop or in Illustrator and gets updated when I return to my Indesign document
When I import it it is just dead text and not related to my original file. If someone solves this I would become a really happy chap!

Yours sincerely, Jonas

By: Vivian

Vivian — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:54:47 +0000

For those of you who use Delta Graph: once you create a graph, save it as a jpg, and import it into InDesign, can you edit the jpg if you need to make changes?

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By: AlexC

AlexC — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:03:07 +0000

Pagemaker 7 had a paste option called “Paste Special” and you were able to paster as a Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet which kept all the formatting that was in the spreadsheet. Is there a way to do this with inDesign CS4?