Illustrator layers to indesign?

CS3 - I have 20 layers of a line each of words of text which all need a fair
amount of work on in Illustrator before placing in different areas of ID
document - do I have to save each layer as seperate document or can I
somehow "place" each layer seperately and still use edit original?

InDesign 5 will let you select which layers of an Illustrator 13 file are visible. Click Import Options when placing or hold Shift when you click OK to access layer options when placing, or right-click on a placed AI file.

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