is it possible to automate indesign catalog so that it fills the fields from excel?

A customer saw a competitor to present a catalog and shows how from this indesign template database or excel file can be filled with text and images to a file listed in the excel name.  Someone know how to do this or can you suggest a program that can do - have a meeting in the morning and supposed to be all over this so that any help much appreciated.

Use the data merge.

See: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6c3ca.h tml

See also:

http://InDesignSecrets.com/Automating-data-handling.php

http://InDesignSecrets.com/data-merging-part-2.php

http://InDesignSecrets.com/data-merging-part-3.php

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