But the ability now to link from one story to another inside the same document is novel. Linked text is not technically new you’ve been able to link to Word and Excel docs for many years (by turning on a checkbox in the Preferences dialog box). Change the “parent” text and the “child” text changes, too. Have some text that shows up looking the same in 15 different places in your document? You can now duplicate a story and link the duplicate to the original, like a clone.
Now, in CS5.5, you can set a story’s order in the new Articles panel. An article can combine multiple text and graphic frames, and then allows you to rearrange their order. Order is particularly important when trying to export EPUB, XHTML, or accessible PDFs, but can be important at other times, too. Until now, if you wanted to specify an order for your stories - that is, headline first, subhead next, then story, and so on - you had to either put everything in the same text thread or use the Structure Pane (which was designed for XML and is difficult to master). Adobe today announced a significant release of InDesign and the Creative Suite, dubbed 5.5! While there is a little for everyone - there’s one or two features that will excite every CS5 user - how much you’ll want 5.5 directly correlates to how much work you do with interactive documents (EPUB, DPS, HTML, and accessible PDF files).
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