It might need to be formatted but not much. I’m going to be re-creating some training documents in InDesign instead of whatever they were created in before, so that we can do simple changes across the entire document when our standards change, as they do all the time.

I think a combination of Word docs and Place and Link should do the trick, and might place InDesign documents as well if it is something more complex. The ability to match the style names from Word > InDesign for whatever formatting we need should also work.

I might be able to get away with just using Place and Link alone.

It’s been a year since I’ve used InDesign (been using Illustrator at my new job, and Photoshop at home so I’m always using Adobe-something!) and I started with XPress 3.0 back in the day. One year off sure does dull the knowledge of a program! But I’m back up to speed and confident that this will work fine. Looking forward to creating these documents, I’ve always been at jobs where nobody wanted to use these features and instead cut-and-paste everything, even page numbers. I had to fight tooth-and-nail to get one place to use Libraries instead of creating everything over and over again each week!

I posted here just to make sure that I create the document with the right tools from the get-go.