When you add items and content to the Shared Content palette, you can choose various synchronization options in the Shared Item Properties dialog box.

• To synchronize the content of the selected text box, text path, or picture box without synchronizing the box or path itself, uncheck Synchronize Box Attributes and check Synchronize Content. Text synchronized in this way must be dragged into a text box or path, and pictures synchronized in this way must be dragged into a picture box.
• You can synchronize the text or picture and its content attributes (such as, formatting for text and scaling, rotation, and effects for pictures) by clicking or choosing Content and Attributes.
• You can synchronize the text or picture while allowing unique content attribute edits by clicking or choosing Content Only. If you do this, the text or picture can be formatted differently in different parts of the project. But if you edit the text or update the picture in one place, that change is made everywhere.
• To synchronize a text box, text path, or picture box and its attributes without synchronizing its contents, check Synchronize Box Attributes and uncheck Synchronize Content. For example, assume you do this with a text or picture box, and then drag out two copies of the box. If you then resize and add a frame to one of the boxes, the other box is automatically resized and acquires the same frame. You may, however, import different content into each box.

To synchronize item attributes, content, and content attributes, check Synchronize Box Attributes and Synchronize Content, and click or choose Content and Attributes. If you synchronize two boxes this way, any change made to one is automatically made to the other, including changes to box size, contents, and formatting.