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Howdy - I recently learned about the magic of Books in InDesign. I've got about 25 different files into a book and I want to reference an item that is in a different file by saying "please see section BLAH page BLAH"
Easy to do within the same doc, but can this be done in a book, skipping form one file to another?
I placed the "Next page number" marker, drew the frame, and tried to drop it onto the other file but all it did was create a new unlinked text box.
Any ideas?

Is that happening on every document?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990
Or just that document?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526991
It could be a bit of both - so try both options.

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