Remove broken link to Word doc

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December 10, 2018
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Hello,

I've ran into the broken link problem in Indesign (13.1). I have a single Word doc of a book linked into an ID file. The layout has been completed and all looks great. But ID says the link needs to be updated. I update the Word doc link and the entire layout is ruined.

Embed Link and Link Options are greyed out in the Links panel. I tried previous suggestions:

There are no locked layers

A suggested script to delete parents deletes most of the doc contents.

Track changes is off

Trashed preferences, reinstalled.

Saved to IDML, open, resave to ID file

I've done embedding with other ID files, deleted the original Word doc, and it worked fine.

This is only a single linked Word doc. Is there a way to delete the link and move on? The layout is complete, all I need to do is clear the error.

Thanks!

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BobLevine

Community Expert

Right click the link in the links panel and choose unembed link.

Then with no files open, check your preferences and disable "create links when placing text and spreadsheet files.

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elellilrahAuthor

Inspiring

Therein lies the problem - the unembed link option is unavailable. The book is already laid out but it's still attached to the original Word ms. Once I update the link, the formatting is trashed. Any ideas?

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elellilrahAuthor

Inspiring

If this is your typical workflow I strongly recommend you look at Wordsflow from emsoftware:

http://emsoftware.com/products/wordsflow/

Bob - That is some pretty nice software, thank you.

I assume others wait until the manuscript is perfect before going into layout? I'd like to see someone else's workflow if they can share it.

Sure wish I had a solution to this particular file. We'll work through it with copy and paste but it'd be better to have a solution that removes the link like my sample test files did.

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