bind the pages between documents (is it possible?) CS6

I acquired the task at my new job of recasting of the operators manuals and parts lists. I know a little bit in indesign, we can say more than the average. (I learn everyday more and more). But on my question as stated above. Is this possible?

I made models for the manuals I've created, but I always find myself change one aspect of design on a page or two and trying to keep everything looking nice and uniform, that I have to open each and make the same changes to match. Although I get manuals more again, opening and changes to all these documents Gets a little intimidating and monotonous. Now I like say my back cover page for example who don't exchange any document for the document, is there a way to link it to all the other blankets back so that if I change something on a that it changes all the back covers all related documents?

Also I can be me going but I have a few pages where all that is deferred like a few words (I like to consider as variables) such as the name of the product manual to address. If its possible to link the pages it would be possible to say ID to "ignore" a piece of text say inbetween two sets of characters? IE: "it's the best" (variable) "in the world".

I can just dream but if theres a function or tool that everyone knows (or even a script, a person brought) please feel free to share it with me!

Thanks for your time!

Well, for your No. 2 question, Yes, there are a text variables in InDesign that do exactly what you ask. Type menu->-> set text Variables.

For question No. 1: you can place an InDesign document to another as an image, so if you have identical pages, you can place this way. If you need text content are identical, but the presentation format for change, I would say now your text in Word or Google Docs and looking in WordFlow or DocsFlow from Em Software. Finally, the more complicated, less use-able is to include your documents in a book file to use Sync Master Pages causes changes in a master page in waterfall to your other files.

You can get a lot fancier with Q No 1, in the form of structured writing, content management systems, and so on, but I think that place the InDesign files in other InDesign files pretty much exactly what you're looking for.

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