Working with images in a spreadsheet

- [Voiceover] In this video, we're gonna concentrate…on column D, which is our images column,…and I'll show the best way to get these in here.…plus a few tips and tricks.…If you're familiar with InDesign's data merge feature,…you already know that it uses the at symbol…to indicate image variables.…The variable importer uses the same symbol,…and we can see it at the top of the column…in the hero_image header.…That's the first thing to really nail down.…If you forget to add this symbol…to the front of the variable name,…importer script will just treat it as plain old text.…

Another important note to make is that the at symbol…only appears in the spreadsheet…and not in your Illustrator file.…I'll switch back over to Illustrator quickly to demonstrate.…Checking my layers panel, I'll open the image layer,…which reveals the image object named hero_image.…It doesn't have the at symbol preceding it here.…That symbol is only for the importer script to understand…that it's dealing with image data, so make sure…you leave it out of your Illustrator object names.…