Linked stories | cs5.5 – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Linked stories | CS5.5
Create a linked story
Specify linked story options
Update a linked story
Edit original story
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.
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