WordsFlow

Users of Adobe's InDesign solution might stumble upon some issues when managing Office-based productions. This can be especially frustrating when collaborating on projects that involve Word or Excel documents, which is where WordsFlow seeks to help one with.

To put it simply, this InDesign plug-in aims to fuse the editing capabilities of tools like Word and Excel with the publishing and layout features of Adobe's solution. This serves to enhance and empower collaborative workflows, where your team is able to more handily cooperate across those programs.

For instance, authors and editors can handle the writing and proofreading of the source material, while the user can place the links to that material in InDesign. This may not be so much of a problem when dealing with a single, isolated version of the material, but once multiple versions, each with its own corrections and formatting, are introduced and overwritten into an InDesign layout, precious time is wasted in the readjustment process.

Where WordsFlow shows its value is precisely in the aforementioned cases: users can link Word and Excel files to their InDesign layout, and they'll get notified as the plug-in adds in the new changes, without disrupting any previous work.