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• • September 28, 2017 at 2:10 pm #98440
    Vinson Man

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    Greetings fellow inDesign enthusiasts!

    I have an excel file that I’d like to import into inDesign as a series of tables. The file has a large number of columns which exceeds the width of a page. I can’t seem to get the over-set columns to thread into another text box. As far as I understand threading only works with rows. I didn’t find much about this online so am I simply overlooking some simple option somewhere?

    Thanks in advance!

  • September 28, 2017 at 2:16 pm #98442
    Graham Park

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    InDesign table flow vertically, rows, not horizontally, columns.
    Flowing horizontally does not make a lot of sense as they really become separate tables.

    You could ether separate the data in Excel into a couple of worksheet and import separately or do the same in InDesign buy cutting and pasting the columns to make two separate tables.

    • September 28, 2017 at 2:55 pm #98444
      Vinson Man

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      That’s unfortunate news indeed… Anyways I ended up separating them manually but that just felt wrong and may be problematic with any future changes.

      Thanks,

  • September 28, 2017 at 2:28 pm #98443
    Dwayne Harris

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    When I deal with tables with a lot of columns, I either sideturn it (landscape on the page); or extend across facing pages (spread).[in the latter case I compensate for the gutters.

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