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wfreemanuk is absolutely right about InDesign.<br />
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Agreed, Illustrator can do it also, but all of the powerful tools for this sort of thing are in InDesign.<br />
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<i>&lt;&lt;do not accept this comment as a solution, I was just adding my support to wfreemanuk's suggestion&gt;&gt;</i>
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wfreemanuk is absolutely right about InDesign.

Agreed, Illustrator can do it also, but all of the powerful tools for this sort of thing are in InDesign.

<<do not accept this comment as a solution, I was just adding my support to wfreemanuk's suggestion>>

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Trying to figure out what programs people use to create datasheets<br />
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Here is an example of a simple datasheet we'd like to create for our products<br />
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<a href="http://www.activestorage.com/download/ActiveSAN-Product_Overview-20110131.pdf" rel="ugc">http://www.activestorage.com/download/ActiveSAN-Product_Overview-20110131.pdf</a><br />
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I know how to create a PDF of course - but the design/columns/etc - where do you put together all of that stuff nicely? 
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Trying to figure out what programs people use to create datasheets

Here is an example of a simple datasheet we'd like to create for our products

http://www.activestorage.com/download/ActiveSAN-Product_Overview-20110131.pdf

I know how to create a PDF of course - but the design/columns/etc - where do you put together all of that stuff nicely? 

Which Adobe Program to create a Datasheet?

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems. Each edition consists several Adobe applications, including Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Premiere Pro or After Effects. Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator are the industry standard applications for many graphic design positions. CS6 is the last version of the Creative Suite; future versions of their creative software would only be available via their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service.

Adobe Creative Suite CS

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Adobe Reader), Acrobat (formerly Acrobat Exchange) and Acrobat.com. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and OS X only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files.

Adobe Acrobat

Illustration software is distinguished from photo-editing software in that the result is an original construction, rather than the manipulation of a photograph. Illustration software uses vector-based tools such that the content is stored digitally as resolution-independent mathematical formulae describing lines (open paths), shapes (closed paths), and color fills, strokes or gradients. Vector paths are constructed of anchor points and path segments. Illustration tools typically create precise lines, shapes and patterns with well-defined edges and are superb for working with complex constructions such as maps and typography.