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H Peterson
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I was able to work around the greyed-out Unlink option, as follows:

1. Copy and paste the INDD-based text into a spare frame.
2. Link the problematic frame that was linked to a since-deleted Word file to a spare .txt file instead (I used an Instructions.txt file.)
3. In Links, right-click on the .txt file item and click the now-available Unlink option.
4. Delete any text in the story and paste the actual text from the spare frame back in.

This is obviously a cumbersome fix. I have limited experience with placing text linked to a Word file, so I don’t know if the Unlink option being greyed out is common. What brought me to this thread via web search was a packaged document that included a now-unnecessary Word file that I deleted from the Links folder before opening the INDD file to poke around. In the future, I’ll just try to unlink before deleting.

This article was last modified on April 21, 2018

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