Reply To: Can anchored objects by synced with "Paste and Link"

As you’ve noticed, “Place and Link” won’t paste into a text frame directly. You have to place on the pasteboard, cut, and paste just as you must do in the original.

The trick with Object Styles inside a group that has its own Object Style is to group first, then apply Object Styles to the individual elements. If you do it the other way round, the Object Style you apply to the group will cancel out individual Object Styles applied to the elements inside it.

Any changes to one of the grouped elements will be reflected in the placed copies, such as when you replace an image, but there’s a big caveat. The styles of the receiving document rule under normal circumstances (that’s a feature, not a bug!), so a style change in the original won’t necessarily reflect in the copy. How these various items interact is a bit complicated, so the best reference to go by is the InDesign Help page on Place and Link.