From the course: Remote Publishing Workflows for Designers and Editors
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Use the WordsFlow plugin
From the course: Remote Publishing Workflows for Designers and Editors
Use the WordsFlow plugin
- [Instructor] As you saw in the previous video, live-linking to word files using InDesign built in link feature does not work well at all. And if you didn't see the video, just take it from me. I mentioned that there is a solution and that's what I want to talk about today. And the solution is a plugin for Adobe InDesign called WordsFlow. That's what this little illustration is showing that with WordsFlow installed in InDesign, it does a much better job of live-linking to external word files as well as Excel files, but I'll just be talking about word files today. So let's see where you get this wonderful software. Hy-vee to your browser and go to EM Software like em dash, emsoftware.com. And what I'm talking about is this plugin called WordsFlow. So I'm going to select WordsFlow, and it does what they call magic merge. And it is a magic merge. When you update a linked word file with WordsFlow, you do not lose any of…
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