Placing multiple Word Documents into InDesign

[smith385]

I have multiple authors working on a document.
I would like to import each of their Word documents into one InDesign document and keep them all linked in case they make changes to their Word documents.

However, when I place each Word document into one text box and a change is made to one of the Word documents the update is made within InDesign, but deletes all the other documents that are linked in that same text box.

So, then I tried placing each of the Word documents into their own text box. Except ,when one of the Word documents is modified the text box within InDesign either covers the next text box (if text was added) or leaves several blank pages (if text was deleted).

How do I keep the multiple text boxes flowing together?
Hopefully my question makes sense.

 

[jmgalvin]

Adobe has InCopy for this purpose, collaboration, but it's not cheap.

While I thing that it's easiest to keep everything in Word till done and then placing in indd, you might try setting a text box for each on a separate page of the indd doc, possibly giving each several pages to prevent overflow.

After, you can move the pages around in the pages window, or move the text boxes as you want, or cop and paste into your final layout from the other indd pages and then trashing those.


Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4