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Text box repeat

Guest
Mar 23, 2020 Mar 23, 2020

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I have 2 text boxes. The text I enter in the first box, I would like to see it repeated in the second box. For example, in the first text box, I want to add the name of a person. The second text box could be further down on page 20 and I want that name of the text box to be the same as text box 2 entry on page 20. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

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Advocate , Mar 23, 2020 Mar 23, 2020

This is exactly why the Edit > Place and Link feature was created. Works like a charm.

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Mar 23, 2020 Mar 23, 2020

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Hi,

how about using InDesign's text variables?

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/text-variables.html

 

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Uwe Laubender

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Mar 23, 2020 Mar 23, 2020

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This is exactly why the Edit > Place and Link feature was created. Works like a charm.

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Mar 24, 2020 Mar 24, 2020

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You cannot do it with InDesign, this must be done using Acrobat Pro.

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Mar 24, 2020 Mar 24, 2020

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Place and Link is definitely the way to go.

 

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Mar 24, 2020 Mar 24, 2020

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We finally found a more practical and more intuitive function in Acrobat Pro than in InDesign, generally it is quite the opposite!

 

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Mar 24, 2020 Mar 24, 2020

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Thank you, that is a big time saver. Appreciate your help.

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Hi Scott,

Place and Link will only work with whole stories.

If the text should repeat as part of another text stream one has only one option for repeating contents: Text Variables.

 

Let's see what our OP would say…

 

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Uwe Laubender

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Thank you all for your great help and suggestions. This really helps save time and headache!

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