Can I use a template across several...

Can I use a template across several documents that when the base template is updated the documents using that template will update as well? (Documents being different files which will be compiled into a single package after printing)

I have tried doing this but when I change the ''template'' nothing changes on the other files started from that template.

Thanks for any feedback.

Chris
Can I use a template across several...
No. When you open a template you create a new document starting from that template, but changes to the template do not affect other documents. This is not Word. That's praise.
Can I use a template across several...
Templates are only starting points. Once you build a document on a template, changing the template will have no effect

on files based on it.



You need to familiarise yourself with master pages.



k

You can ''sort of'' use a document as the basis for other work and have it update, but it won't be editable in the new document. Since CS3 ID has had the capability to place other ID pages, just as you would place an image from Photoshop.



These pages are links, just like other links, so if you update the source of the link ID will tell you and ask you to update the current file. The downside is that you can't just click into one of these pages and start typing, as you could with a template. If you meed to make a change you must either ''edit original'' or add new content on top.



Peter

I think what you are looking for is the ''book'' feature.



Although, I agree, Word is superior to InDesign when it comes to

templates. Templates in InDesign are exactly the same thing as regular

documents only with a different extension.

%26gt;Word is superior to InDesign when it comes to templates.



I disagree wit that. I hate that it's so easy to change unopened documents by changing a template. IME Word is superior to nothing when it comes to anything.

As long as it's an option that can be turned off you can't really

complain. A lot of people that complain about how terrible Word is don't

really know how to use it.

There is one minor difference, I've discovered, besides the default opening behavior, between files saved as templates and those saved as documents in ID. Templates save a preview for each page, documents on the first. Beyond that, it seems, changing the extension converts one to the other.



edit: That should be document save ONLY the first page preview.

That's interesting, so if you save a file as a template and then change

the extension, will that document have a preview of each page?

Yup. Amazing what pops up when you read the help files (the part about the multiple previews -- the rest is empirical data from actual tests). :)