Comments on: tip of the day: import excel charts in indesign http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-charts-in-indesign Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:53:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Cindy Weatherwax http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-charts-in-indesign/comment-page-1#comment-23695 Cindy Weatherwax Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:33:55 +0000 http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-graphics-in-indesign/#comment-23695 I'm new to InDesign altogther. We are currently using CS4 and I am trying to import excel files for our Annual Report - documents, tables, charts etc into InDesign but having no success. I seem to have success with importing the word tables from the Financial Document, but it doesn't import the word document portion of the document or the excel tables that are set within. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I’m new to InDesign altogther. We are currently using CS4 and I am trying to import excel files for our Annual Report - documents, tables, charts etc into InDesign but having no success. I seem to have success with importing the word tables from the Financial Document, but it doesn’t import the word document portion of the document or the excel tables that are set within.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

]]> By: Kat http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-charts-in-indesign/comment-page-1#comment-22885 Kat Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:06:00 +0000 http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-graphics-in-indesign/#comment-22885 I've tried the tip of the day "import excel charts in indesign" and the quality (in InDesign) is not good at all. There has to be a better way to get quality Excel graphs to look good in InDesign ... this baffles me no end! I’ve tried the tip of the day “import excel charts in indesign” and the quality (in InDesign) is not good at all. There has to be a better way to get quality Excel graphs to look good in InDesign … this baffles me no end!

]]> By: robi http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-charts-in-indesign/comment-page-1#comment-520 robi Fri, 04 May 2007 15:59:30 +0000 http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-graphics-in-indesign/#comment-520 hi lohrs, would it be a solution for you if you'd just import already rounded values calculated from the initial values? this way you would have the initial column containing non rounded values and a special column with calculated rounded values. and you would import the second one into indesign. if this is a solution for you, then excel has a round function going like this: round(cell, number of digits to round to). if you set the number of digits to round to 0, then excel will round the numbers to an integer number not using any decimals. ex: if you have in b2 the value 23.433 and in b3 the value 23.55 then: round(b2,0)=23 round(b3,0)=24 round(b2,1)=23.4 round(b3,1)=23.6 i hope this helps robi hi lohrs,

would it be a solution for you if you’d just import already rounded values calculated from the initial values?
this way you would have the initial column containing non rounded values and a special column with calculated rounded values. and you would import the second one into indesign.

if this is a solution for you, then excel has a round function going like this:
round(cell, number of digits to round to).
if you set the number of digits to round to 0, then excel will round the numbers to an integer number not using any decimals.

ex: if you have in b2 the value 23.433 and in b3 the value 23.55
then:
round(b2,0)=23
round(b3,0)=24
round(b2,1)=23.4
round(b3,1)=23.6

i hope this helps
robi

]]> By: webee http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-charts-in-indesign/comment-page-1#comment-519 webee Fri, 04 May 2007 15:15:51 +0000 http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-graphics-in-indesign/#comment-519 hi Lohrs, it happend to me too, with the tables but on the sizes of the objects, and i didn't find a solution until now. i suspect that this is because the numbers' formats are different in excel and indesign, or the fact that maybe excel doesn't have units and increments. i don't work much in excel sooo.... maybe someone who knows excel better could help us. thanks for the comment, come again hi Lohrs,
it happend to me too, with the tables but on the sizes of the objects, and i didn’t find a solution until now.
i suspect that this is because the numbers’ formats are different in excel and indesign, or the fact that maybe excel doesn’t have units and increments. i don’t work much in excel sooo….
maybe someone who knows excel better could help us.

thanks for the comment, come again

]]> By: Lohrs http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-charts-in-indesign/comment-page-1#comment-518 Lohrs Fri, 04 May 2007 13:16:56 +0000 http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-graphics-in-indesign/#comment-518 I place excel tables into InDesign and maintain the linked source documents that change regularly so I can then just update them in ID. I use TableStyles & CellStyles plugin from Teacup to retain formatting and creative control. However, I've encountered a wrong rounding problem with the placed excel files. I.e., figures that are input with two decimal places in Excel and are formatted to show with no decimal places, are of course rounded off correctly in Excel. However, on placing this file in InDesign, numbers originally entered as ending in .45 through .49 are wrongly rounded up in InDesign. For example, what was originally 22.46 and showed as 22 in Excel becomes 23 in InDesign. Have you encountered this problem or know of a solution? I place excel tables into InDesign and maintain the linked source documents that change regularly so I can then just update them in ID. I use TableStyles & CellStyles plugin from Teacup to retain formatting and creative control.
However, I’ve encountered a wrong rounding problem with the placed excel files.
I.e., figures that are input with two decimal places in Excel and are formatted to show with no decimal places, are of course rounded off correctly in Excel. However, on placing this file in InDesign, numbers originally entered as ending in .45 through .49 are wrongly rounded up in InDesign. For example, what was originally 22.46 and showed as 22 in Excel becomes 23 in InDesign.

Have you encountered this problem or know of a solution?

]]> By: webee http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-charts-in-indesign/comment-page-1#comment-480 webee Wed, 02 May 2007 15:45:28 +0000 http://www.webee.ro/2007/04/03/tip-of-the-day-import-excel-graphics-in-indesign/#comment-480 [...] you want to use it in indesign, here’s how you can import excel tables to indesign, import excel charts in indesign, and how to import word elements in [...] [...] you want to use it in indesign, here’s how you can import excel tables to indesign, import excel charts in indesign, and how to import word elements in [...]

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