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Susan Flamingo
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March 26, 2023
Question

Linking text in another file

  • March 26, 2023
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Hi friends!

I used to know how to do this but have forgotten 😞

 

I have one file which is entirely just threaded text frames.

I am continuously polishing the text in this file.

I re-use the text in this file in some other files. sometimes all of it and sometimes on part of it.

I want to do all the polishing/corrections in one central place and have all "the children" files reflect the updates.

So in the "children" files, I guess I want to link a text frame to the test in the parent file sometimes to all of it sometimes only to part of it.

 

Thank you all very much

 

Susan

 

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2 replies

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 26, 2023

It's not going to work with threaded frames. That's an all-or-nothing solution.

 

If you can split them up, you can use InCopy stories and link those.

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 26, 2023

I think you may want Edit > Place and Link.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/linked-content.html

 

Peter Spier
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 26, 2023

Normally I would agree, but the OP says she wants to use the sme text in multiple docs, but not the entire text in all of them, and I suspect that an update to the original text would result in the snippets being replaced by the entire text.

Susan Flamingo
Known Participant
March 26, 2023

I actually did this a long time ago but as I said it has been deleted from my memory...:(