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COLLABORATION AND SINGLE-SOURCING
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The Content palette provides access to the items and content in the shared content
library.When you share the content in a text box, the complete text will be shared, it is
not possible to share a fraction of text. If you need to share only part of the text, then
you should be using a content variable. Content Variables allow you to achieve that
using a custom variable.
Understanding synchronization options
When you add items and content to the Content palette, you can choose various
synchronization options in the Shared Item Properties dialog box.
To synchronize the content of the selected text box, text path, or picture box
without synchronizing the box or path itself, uncheck Synchronize Box
Attributes and check Synchronize Content. Text synchronized in this way must
be dragged into a text box or path, and pictures synchronized in this way must
be dragged into a picture box.
You can synchronize the text or picture and its content attributes (such as,
formatting for text and scaling, rotation, and effects for pictures) by clicking or
choosing Content and Attributes.
You can synchronize the text or picture while allowing unique content attribute
edits by clicking or choosing Content Only. If you do this, the text or picture
can be formatted differently in different parts of the project. But if you edit the
text or update the picture in one place, that change is made everywhere.
To synchronize a text box, text path, or picture box and its attributes without
synchronizing its contents, check Synchronize Box Attributes and uncheck
Synchronize Content. For example, assume you do this with a text or picture
box, and then drag out two copies of the box. If you then resize and add a frame
to one of the boxes, the other box is automatically resized and acquires the same
frame. You may, however, import different content into each box.
To synchronize item attributes, content, and content attributes, check Synchronize
Box Attributes and Synchronize Content, and click or choose Content and
Attributes. If you synchronize two boxes this way, any change made to one is
automatically made to the other, including changes to box size, contents, and
formatting.