Eddie wrote: I create a lot of sales literature that includes the same office phone number footer. We keep adding offices and changing the numbers. Short of opening every InDesign document and doing a find/change on the phone number, is there a better way to update? Like linking somehow to a single file? Can you link to text or snippets like an image, so every time the doc is re-opened, it updates?

This is a common request, and the answer is (as it so often is): yes and no. InDesign won’t let you link to snippets, but it will let you link to a text file. We discussed linking to text files in podcast Episode 38, but I don’t think we got into the details of how to link to a little chunk of text that changes periodically. Here’s what you can do…