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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting

093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting

One of my favorite features in InDesign CS6 is the place and link option. That cool thing that if you select any object in your layout, you can go to Edit menu, choose Place and Link, and it's as though you were placing something that you imported from an external file. I'll just put this right out here on the paste board. And except that the original is actually inside here. And so if I scale this, hold down Cmd+Shift or Ctrl+Shift on a PC, then any children that I placed in that manner become out of date. They're out of date here, they're out of date in the Links panel. And in either place I can update them and they will change to match. Let me undo that, a couple of steps. If I had made some local edits to one of those instances that I had placed, so for example, I will add a three-point stroke on this one. This one has no stroke. And then I modify the parent, like I'll scale it again. When this one's out of date, when I update it, I get a warning. Edits have been made to this…

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