Prices and specifications from Sheets
Connect a range from Google Sheets and bring it in as an InDesign table or as tab-separated text.
Use case
Catalogues where the prices change last
Product data lives in spreadsheets and keeps moving until the day you print. DriveSync brings it into tables you have already styled, and leaves the styling alone.
What DriveSync does for catalogues
Tables that stay styled
Later syncs rewrite the cell text in place. Table and cell styles, strokes, fills and insets stay as you set them — including columns you narrowed to fit the page.
Supplier files as they arrive
Excel and Word files uploaded to Drive without converting — .xlsx, .xls, .docx and .doc — are read as well.
Worth knowing before you start
DriveSync leaves the structure of a table alone. It updates the text in the cells you have; it doesn’t add or remove rows when the sheet grows or shrinks. When a range changes size, adjust the table in InDesign, then sync.
Product photography is placed once. Images come in on the first sync and are then frozen, so a later price update never moves them. If a photo changes, place the new file yourself — or turn image import off and manage artwork entirely in InDesign.
Is DriveSync a catalogue automation tool?
No. It doesn’t build a page for each product or place products into a template for you — InDesign’s Data Merge and dedicated catalogue systems do that. DriveSync is for catalogues you lay out yourself, where the text and figures keep changing after the design is done.
Try it on the document that is annoying you most
Fourteen days, every feature, no card required. If DriveSync cannot hold your styling on a real job, you will know within an afternoon.