With WordsFlow, you place Word documents (including tables and graphics) and Excel spreadsheets (Pro version) as InDesign story contents normally, using a familiar place dialog.īut, behind the scenes, WordsFlow maintains a dynamic link so it can intelligently merge external document changes into the InDesign story contents on each link update, rather than just replacing the story. WordsFlow, a plug-in for InDesign, for the first time combines the editing power of Word and Excel with the layout power of InDesign, adding its own dynamic linking and sophisticated merge technologies to supercharge your editorial and production workflows. (Expand to full-screen for best viewing.) Bring your authors and editors into your InDesign production process If you prefer a screencast as an overview, here’s a 4 minute WordsFlow walkthrough. You can do all this, and more, with WordsFlow, your Word-based time machine. What if you could export original InDesign content to a new linked Word document, allowing collaborators to work in their native tools, and then re-import their changes with a click, using the same magic merge?.

What if you could push your content changes back to the linked Word document at any time, staying synchronized with your authors and editors?.

What if, when they had updates, you could magically merge their work into yours with a click (as a link update), without losing any work on either side, and with automatic notification of any conflicts?.

What if you could place Word and Excel documents with live links in InDesign, and proceed with production, while your authors and editors continued working on the original documents?.

What if you could have a time machine to speed up your Microsoft Word-based editorial production in InDesign?.

Live-link and magic-merge Word and Excel documents

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