Can anyone tell me the best way to approach this as I am stuck. I know there must be a relatively simple way of doing this in Excel and then copying it into indesign but I have run out of ideas. However, if you want uppercase e with accent letters, turn on the caps lock whilst typing these shortcuts. NOTE: These keystrokes will give you the lowercase e with accents. To type (e with umlaut), press Ctrl+Shift+ semicolon then e. This worked in Excel but when copying it into indesign they do not go underneath each other but into different cells and they also show ' quotation marks around the text. To type (e with circumflex), press Ctrl+ caret then e. I tried to combine column C and D (as IN THE PICTURE) and insert a new line between the columns. Where the problem arises is trying to merge two cells in excel so that they are underneath each other and then paste it into one cell in the indesign table. I have to put a name in one column and then in the other put the company name and their title, as the picture (1) here illustrates: Be aware though that these InDesign special characters are visualised only when the Screen Mode is set to Normal. This will force InDesign show hidden characters. Click on Type in the main menu bar and then turn on Show Hidden Characters.

I was given an excel spread sheet with the a list of peoples names, their titles and their companies. If you've already typed your character in INDD, such as an 'e' for example, highlight it, and then go to the Glyphs chart, make sure the font you're using is showing up in the bottom window (mine says Minion Pro, for example), and then find the e with the accent in the panel, and click on it, and it should add the accent to your already-highlighted e in your INDD copy, like this -. To show hidden characters in InDesign, you need to check the hidden characters setting. I'm creating a booklet with indesign and I am trying to copy data from an excel spreadsheet into an indesign table.

E with tilde for indesign