import chart data from Excel or CSV
Need to be able to import data from an Excel (or at least a CSV) file, to create chart with Charting tool. Rather antiquated to have to copy/paste to get data for a chart. (In more than 30 years of using AI, I've NEVER been given a data file in TXT format--the only option currently available to import graph data.)
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Micle John commented
I know how to dump data from an excel file to Adobe Illustrator dielines for printing labels.
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Anonymous
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Check out Datylon Graph for Illustrator extension. Maybe this solves the data importing issues you are facing?(and maybe even some more!)
https://www.datylon.com/graph -
Richard de Garis
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Update charts as source data changes or is amended. In the case of Excel the link would replicate how InDesign does it, but additionally allow the import of a range that is too big - empty cells are ignored. This would allow for appended data, in the case of a time series.
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Richard
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From Excel, do File > Save As unicode text file. WIth a .csv, change the file extension to .txt. They are the same thing.