: Most effortless way to design a spreadsheet? I am often given either spreadsheets or word documents with lists of things that I then have to style in a graphics program of my liking. I need

@Kimberly620

Yes, in-design can read tables. Or you can just use a script to inject the values no big deal. Or if you prefer to use illustrator or Photoshop and no scripting, then you can make tables in inDesign and place the inDesign page into the other application that will update when your inDesign does.

I am in my day to day work astonished how bad tools graphic designers use for info-graphics. And even the tools they have are way under utilized. Updating a table is pretty trivial, but nothing says you can not update graphics from that data too. Its possible to color objects from data no problem. It is also possible to rope in tandem with a scientific potting tool etc,.

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@Voss6371140

Forget about PS and AI for this job.

There's a couple of ways to bring spreadsheets into InDesign, which sort of automatically transforms these to tables and then there's a ton of ways for you to quickly setup some basic formatting or more advanced styles you can then re-use for future work. This can get very detailed so just research this for a bit on Youtube and soon you'll be doing this :)

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