Can Documents Fetch Data?

Hello,
New Technical Writer here; I've been teaching myself FrameMaker mostly by trial and error, and so far it's been going rather well.
I introduced my boss to FrameMaker (who loves it), but his ideas on what might can be done with the software are growing much faster than my experience. In this specific case, he wants to know if I can get a document to fetch data from another file or location, much like excel does when you tell it to take a figure from another cell and use it in a formula.
For example, lets say I have a bulleted list that goes something like this:
Specification 1: ______________
Specification 2: ______________
ETC
Can I get FrameMaker to look somewhere for that data in say (preferably) an excel file, or at least fetch from another FrameMaker document? It's so similar to what Books do with Documents I would not be surprised if FrameMaker has it, but I cannot find it in the menus (or have but didn't know what I was looking at).
Sorry to ask a simple "how to" question, but I have yet to find much (free) training on this software, so I have been mostly left to my own whims (you don't want to know how many days I spent trying to figure out how to get the tab feature to work!). As such, if someone could direct me to a great learning source (preferably free but I would be willing to pay if I heard of a program that was worth the money) I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!

Is this fetching going to be changing all the time? If not, you could use Text Insets to do this I guess. If so, then you probably want to hook it up with a freebie database program like Mirano Personal Edition (search the forums for mention of it - Arnis Gubins has recommended it).
As for FM "books" I'd recommend Scriptorium.com's Unstructured FM8 Reference - it's clear & easy to understand and even though the UI is different in FM9+, it still works 99% the same.

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Syntax
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TYPE-POOLS: slis.
DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 0,
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 expand,
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s_fieldcatalog-tabname = 'ITAB1'.
s_fieldcatalog-rollname = 'VBELN'.
s_fieldcatalog-outputlen = '12'.
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s_fieldcatalog-tabname = 'ITAB1'.
s_fieldcatalog-rollname = 'POSNR'.
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Hi,
can anyone give me some documents for data cluster?
ths!
regards!

Hi ,
The following is a documentation on the Data Cluster:
Data clusters are specific to ABAP. Although it is possible to read a cluster database using SQL statements, only ABAP can interpret the structure of the data cluster.
You can store data clusters in special databases in the ABAP Dictionary. These are called ABAP cluster databases, and have a prescribed structure:
Cluster Databases ( I have explained the cluster databse below )
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******** Sample Program illustrating the data cluster .
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******to save data objects in cluster databases
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 COL2 TYPE I,
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DO 3000 TIMES.
ITAB-COL1 = SY-INDEX.
ITAB-COL2 = SY-INDEX ** 2.
APPEND ITAB.
ENDDO.
INDX-AEDAT = SY-DATUM.
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 AT 50 'PGMID'.
ULINE.
SELECT * FROM INDX WHERE RELID = 'HK'
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****To create a directory of a data cluster from an ABAP ****cluster database
DATA DIRTAB LIKE CDIR OCCURS 10 WITH HEADER LINE.
IMPORT DIRECTORY INTO DIRTAB FROM DATABASE
 INDX(HK) ID 'Table'.
IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
WRITE: / 'AEDAT:', INDX-AEDAT,
 / 'USERA:', INDX-USERA,
 / 'PGMID:', INDX-PGMID.
WRITE / 'Directory:'.
LOOP AT DIRTAB.
 WRITE: / DIRTAB-NAME, DIRTAB-OTYPE, DIRTAB-FTYPE,
 DIRTAB-TFILL, DIRTAB-FLENG.
ENDLOOP.
ELSE.
WRITE 'Not found'.
ENDIF.
*******run this program and see the result.
Hope this documentation will give you an idea of data cluster.
if useful, do reward with the points.
Regards,
Kunal.

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