Library Items

Library items aren’t full pages. They’re small bits of text, images, or code that you insert when needed. Good material for a library item might be a navigation bar, a copyright notice, a list of links, a graphic masthead, or perhaps a search box. If you want to use something frequently, have it display consistently on any page, and update all instances of it at one time, a library item fits the bill. And library items are easy to create and use.

To create a library item

1. Open a document.

2. Select an element in the document body. It can be anything you want to reuse: text, tables, forms, navigation bars, images, or other elements.

3. Do one of the following:

Choose Modify > Library > Add Object to Library.

or

In the Library category of the Assets panel, click the New Library Item button. or

Drag the selection into the Library category of the Assets panel.

4. The item appears in the Library category of the Assets panel . Type a name for the item.

 

Insert a library item into a document

When you add a library item to a page, the actual content is inserted in the document along with a reference to the library item.

  1. Place the insertion point in the Document window.

  2. In the Assets panel, select the Library category .

  3. Do one of the following:

    • Drag a library item from the Assets panel to the Document window.

  4. To insert the contents of a library item without including a reference to the item in the document, press Control (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) while dragging an item out of the Assets panel. If you insert an item this way, you can edit the item in the document, but the document won’t be updated when you update pages that use that library item.

    • Select a library item, and click Insert.