Linked Text in Legal Documents

[exotherm]

I'm working on a lease that has 24 variations, or 24 variations.  For simplicity sake let's just say that sections 1-12 are all the same, but #13 is unique to each version, 14-18 are all the same but #19 is also unique to the version.  If the text is just basic flowing from column to column page to page etc. is there a way to abstract chunks of that text that will flow into a single/mutliple linked text boxes?

As you can imagine propegating very simple changes is very time consuming and mind numming work that just screams there is a better way.

Bonus points if this can also seamlessly address numbering etc.

I'm also open to using InCopy if that provides an elegant solution.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

This is an interesting problem. I can think of a couple of possibilities but they all follow a similar theme. All are using a primary text frame. 

• Create your sections separately in Word using styles, import and match up styles to ID's styles. Edit the unique sections as needed. 
• Create your sections in ID in separate frames, set text frame options to auto-adjust the height. Select the frame and export as an ID Snippet. Place the snippets into the primary frame. Edit as needed.
• Export the sections from ID as InCopy files. Place into primary text frame. Unlink to edit the unique ones.
• A more complex option would be to input the sections into a database (MS Office for Windows includes Access). Create a filter for the desired sections and export as Word. Place in ID.