Excel to InDesign plugin?

[El Raton]

Does anyone know how to take a spreadsheet from Excel (Name, Address, Phone etc) and import it into InDesign in a specific layout (probably using tags or similar)? I have a excel file with about 100 names that need to be converted into business cards. I'm hoping i don't have to re-type all this info!

thanx!

[poguemahone]

can indesign accept csv delimited information? if so, just convert the excel to that an import..??

[danstiles]

isn't there some import function in the "cells" menus? I seem to remember doing this at some point, but I don't remember how.

[Unitus]

Import Excel data, charts, and graphs (InDesign 2.x, CS, CS2)

[JoshPodolske]

you can place an excell file into indesign, all the cells will turn into a hard returns

[El Raton]

thanks y'all. I'm gonna try a few of these in a minute. Hard returns aren't going help me with what i'm trying to do though. I want to set up a master template for a business card and import the data so each card (or page) will reflect the data on the excel file. Kind of like the mail merge function in Word.

[Unitus]

you can do a data merge in InDesign too.

[Unitus]

indesign > help

YOU CAN DO IT!

[El Raton]

Hot Damn.. it's gonna work! Thanks Unitus!!

[swampviking]

Actually, put on some tights and do one of these: