Hi,

I've tried numerous ways to allow clients to edit copy linked to an InDesign file with varying results. InCopy works great for in-house local text editing folks, but in my experience is too complicated and expensive for a freelance designer to work with freelance writers or other small clients. As Chuck mentioned, a very simple solution is to create links to text and spreadsheet files and update text in the InDesign document that way. In my experience this has the drawback of being more labor intensive and sometimes dropping text formatting when updated, resulting in re-formatting updated text manually. I'm intrigued by the fact that InDesign can link to “Buzzword” text files. This in theory allows a stable link to text that is stored online and allows collaboration between writers and their clients. The drawback is that it costs to use Adobe's online service and many users will not want to step outside their comfort zone to edit text in an unfamiliar environment. Now wondering if there may be a solution using MS Word 2010/2011 and their new online document sharing service. If that could work, writers can stay in their comfort zone, which is usually MS Word and they can collaborate with their clients editing text. If InDesign could link to the MS Word online documents, you would have a very slick text linking and collaboration environment. One2Edit sounds interesting but looks expensive. A s a freelance designer I would love to have a way for clients to be able to edit text in complicated layouts without them having to purchase InCopy or having to link many individual text files. p