Importing data from spreadsheets

I have information in spread sheet form - and i want to create documents straight from this
I dont think data merge is up to the job for  3 reasons:
1) the cell entries vary in size - and the text frames wont expand or contract to fit the data
2) the data is  the form of a number of tabels - but these are divided into sections with an introductory text field of varying size.
3) I want to use colour coding for some of the data.
If it is true that indesing is inadequate could anyone suggest a robust plugin for such jobs
Many thanks

Another option is to create a structured layout in InDesign and import an XML file, exported from Excel, into it. It's a more flexible way and you don't have to by the plug-in.
If you are interested, I posted an example here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2112373#2112373
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