Linking text in another file

[Susan Flamingo]

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

[Steve Werner]

I think you may want Edit > Place and Link.

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

[Susan Flamingo]

Thank you for the reply. But I don't think this is precisely what I need.

I have file1. Which has threaded text frames on three pages. I have ANOTHER file (file2) with a text box getting its content from the text frame in File1 pg 1, I have a third file (file3) which is getting its text from the textframe from of File1 page 3.

ANy changes made to the textframes in file1 are expressed in file2 and file3.

I understand this is done via links but paste and link doesn't ask me where to take the content from???

Thank You

Susan

[Peter Spier]

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]

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

[Susan Flamingo]

I found the previous thread where I was advised how to do this:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/master-text-and-children/m-p/11869659#M416655

But it places the entire "master" file so I guess I will just have to trim the content in file2 and file3 by resising the textframes. Right?

[BobLevine]

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.