Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 292)

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Linked stories (CS5.5)
Replicating content across various pages is no easy task; copy-pasting is error prone and time consuming. Use linked
stories to manage multiple versions of a story or text content in the same document. Linked stories make it easier to
support emerging workflows, where for example, you need to design for vertical and horizontal layouts. Linked stories
also work well for traditional print and publishing workflows, where you might need to synchronize boilerplate text on
different pages.
Linked stories behave similar to traditional links. You can designate a story as the parent, and then place the same story
at other places in the document as child stories. Whenever you update the parent story, the child stories are flagged in
the Links panel and you can update them to synchronize with the parent story. You can create linked stories using
regular stories or text on path stories. Anchored objects inside stories are also supported.
Linked stories remain in sync when you update any applied styles InDesign styles.
Linked stories are flagged as out of sync in the Links panel, even though there are no visible changes. Global changes
in the document that causes InDesign to recompose the stories, flags the links. These global changes may be due to
updates to options or definitions of the following:
• Footnotes
• Text variables
• Conditional text
• Swatches
• XML Tags
• Named grids
Additionally, if you replace all fonts, or replace all instances of an object, InDesign recomposes all the stories, and flags
the links.
Create a linked story
1 Select a story by either selecting the text frame or place the insertion cursor in the text. You can also select multiple
stories by using Shift+Click if you’re selecting text frames.
2 Choose Edit > Place and Link Story. The cursor is loaded with the story.
3 Click in an existing empty text frame or draw a frame to place the linked story.
The icon displays on the upper-left corner of linked story. The story is displayed as linked story in the Links panel.
By default, the name of the story in the Links panel is created using the first few characters of the original story.
You can also change the default name of linked story through Layers panel.
Specify linked story options
1 In the Links panel, select the linked story.
2 From the Links panel menu, choose Linked Story Options.