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This feels more like a Super User question than Graphic Design, but I figure someone here will be more likely to know the answer.

Using InDesign 5, I have a "book" collection that I use to keep a bunch of files in one place. Apparently at some point I opened up and modified two of the files apart from the book file, yielding this little warning:

Book palette with warning highlighted

My question is, how do I get rid of the warning, short of removing the file from the book and reinserting it? I figured there has to be a better way. I would have assumed that opening the file from the book, editing, and saving would have reset it, but that hasn't been the case.

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"Update all cross-references" from the fly-out menu should do the trick. (sorts it out for me in CS6). It's the equivalent of 'Update all links' in the Links window, for placed files within a document.

Or if that's greyed out, "Synchronise book" might help?

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Neither worked (Well, I tried "synchronize selected documents" instead of "synchronize book", which I couldn't find). I tried "Update all Numbers" which worked, but also screwed up all of my page numbers! When I changed them back I got more warnings. Perhaps I'm just using this feature in a way it wasn't intended to be used... – Brendan Feb 14 at 16:57
Did you check the synchronise options? Master Pages is unticked by default for me, might be related. Also, I find the Adobe forums best for questions like this - sometimes it's a bug or corruption or something (sounds possible in this case) and those guys seem to know every bug inside out. – user568458 Feb 14 at 17:05

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