The most effective way to import data from Excel in InDesign?

Hi all

I'm designing for a prospectus of college which includes 400 + courses list. For the moment, these lists exist as a huge Excel sheet with fields such as course type, course code, description, etc.

I am familiar with Excel data import in InDesign and the tables/creation of table styles and other formatting, but the problem I have is that the data are in several columns by courses in the Excel worksheet, but will be in a single column per course with several lines in the InDesign document. I can't find a way to easily convert these columns in lines.

Someone can help me with an effective way to get the data in the page layout without laborious copying and pasting or formatting?

Thanks in advance!

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