Data Export From InDesign CS6 to Excel Please Help

Hi!
I need to export text from a 416 page catalog into an excel document. The text is formatted with paragraph and character style sheets, but the text frames do not link together. Or is there a way to export the text from InDesign with the page number into a text file, then the text file into an Excel document. Thank you so much for your help!

That is not possible. You're going from a "smart" layout application to a dumb one.
I don't think you could even place it as a PDF file of the text into Word and have it work.

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