Master template for multiple documents?

[G1TimK]

I know I can save a document as an InDesign template, and when I need to use it I just open it and save-as to create my new doc based off of it.

Is there any way to make a kind of global template that controls the styles, background images, etc.. and apply that to a bunch of different docs? So that if I did a tweak to the template file, it would automatically apply it to all of the others it's linked to?

I'm trying to create a deck of cards for a board game where each card has unique pictures and text, and different front and back content. At first I was creating all of the cards in 1 document and I have an A and B master for the front and back of the cards, odd pages are the card fronts and even pages are the card backs. But there's a lot of cards now and it's becoming kind of unwieldy trying to find the right card in the page list when I have to edit something. I thought it might be easier if I could have 1 document for each individual card that just has the text and image updates for each one, and then 1 master file telling each card document how it has to look. Is there any way to do anything like that?

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

You can set the cards as one document each, and combine them in an InDesign Book. You can then set up the Master Pages and Style sheet in just one document, then sync them across the whole "book"

[JonathanArias]

treat it like a book with chapters? make a book from the book panel and have each separate indesign document i that book.

[G1TimK]

Thanks, I didn't think of the book thing, that should be the best way to go