I have A LOT of data to bring into my Indesign template. Here's the problem:
The data tables are formatted every which way you can imagine—some cells text, some cells numbers, some numbers with no decimals, some numbers showing 1 decimal, etc.
The problem cells are the ones that are set to show zero decimals in Excel, but ARE showing a decimal in excel...gets pasted into InDesign as a zero, though we want the decimal to display.
That probably makes no sense, so here's an example:
Excel Table:
| Airlines (Directly) | 27 | 55 | 28.1 | |
| Corporate Travel Dept. | 7 | 11 | 3.6 | |
| Travel Guide(s) | 7 | 11 | 4.5 | |
| 2012 | Personal Recommendation (Friends/Rel) | 20 | ||
| 2011 | Friends/Relatives | 15 | ||
| 2012 | National/State/City Travel Office | 4 | ||
| 2011 | Nat'l Govt. Tourist Ofc. | 1 | ||
| 2011 | State/City Travel Ofc. | 1 | ||
| 2012 | Tour Operator/Travel Club | 12 | ||
| 2011 | Tour Company | 5 | ||
| 2012 | Online Travel Agency (OTA) | 31 | ||
| 2012 | Travel Agency Office | 18 | ||
| 2011 | Travel Agency | 30 | ||
| 2012 | Other | 4 | ||
| 2011 | TV/Radio | 0 | ||
| 2011 | Personal Computer | 48 | ||
| 2011 | In-flight Info. Systems | 1 | ||
| 2011 | Newspapers/Magazines | 1 |
The "0" by "TV/Radio" displays as 0.4 in Excel and I need it to display that was in the InDesign table. The problem is that it's set as a number with zero decimals in Excel, but it's showing the number (not rounding to zero decimals, though set to display zero decimals)!
I know what you are saying...just change the cells with 0s to 'numbers, show 1 decimal'. However, I have dozens and dozens of files with hundreds and hundreds of tables with countless "0s" that would need fixing.
I tried changing the tables to text, saving as different types of files, setting all the cells to general, et al, but I just can't get the cells to paste in exactly as they are displayed, irrespective of the excel settings.
I went to Edit->Preferences->Clipboard Handling and tried both settings—Text only and the other one that maintains the information/styling.
Any ideas? Without creating a bunch of macros to fix all the excel files, I have no other ideas...hoping an easy solution is just escaping me. 