Can you tie/bind text box from excel file?

Hello,
I have use Data Merge to enter data from excel. But my question is, is there a way to bind or tie the data with your excel sheet. For example, if you change something on your excel file, it will update your InDesign document too.
Please let us know. Thank you very much.

Not directly to the Excel file with Data Merge, but if you put your field placeholders on a master page your merged data should update (when you reopen the file, or issue an update command) if you edit the text file you use as a data source. In other words, you'd need to update the spreadsheet, then resave a new version of the text file, and finally update the merged document.
Depending on what you are doing, it's also possible to simply place an Excel file and link it, but edits and formatting will be lost if the spreadsheet is changrd unless you use table styles or do the formatting in Excel.

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