Excel/word graphics into indesign nightmare

Hello,
i'm having a hell of time trying to import excel/word(embedded excel with anotations) charts into indesign(like barcharts, pie charts, etc).
They get pasted as an image(when the original is part vector, part image, part text) always with random sizes that when i resize them to fit the page text and graph always looks terrible due to what looks like a very crude linear scaling(haven't found any other option to use a proper lanczos resize/resample) thus graphs end up looking like crap really, and it's extremelly time consuming
so, how do you people do this?, do you maybe paste it into something intermediate that maintains proper text/graph metadata?, i mean, people that make technical boosk(or excel manuals maybe) in indesign how do they do them?!

the "place PDF" method has worked perfectly!, thanks A LOT!
and yes, it will require some retooling of every graph but i've reduced the steps to the minimum necessary per graph to optimize the workflow and it's not very cumbersome(at least not compared to having to redo/transfer tables, urgh those really take a lot of time).
A lot of the issues is because the source material was done in A4 size, including graphs, and now in ID i'm working with a much smaller "book size" so you can imagine that when i transfer huge graphs and need to downsize them, the vectors are somewhat ok, but text went to lalala-land
Now i've made an intermediate word file with the same sheet size as ID so i resize and retool there, export to PDF selection and thus i only need a small amount of placement/content adjustment(mostly to kill the white fill areas) in ID.
one hting i've noticed is that ID is now complaning about missing fonts in ALL of the placed PDFs, and they're normal system fonts(double checked and i do have them), on Word i have the option to embed fonts(no subset) but NOT common system fonts!, yet the imported data seems perfectly fine, what's going on?, do i need to fully incrust ALL fontsin every pdf?

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