Change in illustration stored in library modify all incidences

[Dannau]

Hello to all,

I have a complicated footer that I use in many pages of my indesign document. I have stored the footer in my library. When I make changes to that bloc can it automatically apply these change to all the incidences of that bloc in the document?

Thanks for the help.

Mark

[Steve Werner]

Are you using InDesign libraries (INDL files) or Creative Cloud libraries (found in the CC Libraries panel)? Also: Please tell us what operating system (exactly) you're running. Please tell us (exactly) what InDesign version you're using.

[Dannau]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the help.

I'm using Indesign 15.0.3 on MacOs Catalina 10.15.4. I'm using the CC Library with content stored on a Dropbox folder.

All the best from Chile. Mark

[Steve Werner]

Headers and footers are often part of master pages. If you created the footer on the master page, and you made a change to the footer, all the pages based on that master page would be updated. That may be a simpler way of handling it.

[Dannau]

Thank you Steve,

That already is very useful indeed.

But is there another way of updating all ocurrences of a design element that would not be either a header or a footer?

Cheers, mark

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

You can try the Content Collector tools or the Place and Link workflow:

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

[Dannau]

Ok, I'll try that. Thanks a lot Steve.

Take care. Mark