Can anyone help with this Place > ReplaceSelected Item for RTF file?

[Roger_Piantadosi@adobeforums.com]

Searched the forum, the support site, the horoscope column...no good answer to this question:

I have an RTF file linked via Place in an IDCS2 doc. The text spans 3 linked text frames and two pages. So I place a new file, check the Replace Selected Items and Use Import Options boxes, make sure the Preset I created is selected in the RTF Import Options dialog, then click OK.

The cursor is loaded. The selected text frame is not replaced. Whether I click in the selected text frame or anywhere on the page, the text is placed as a new story.

Sorry, maybe this is a really dumb question, but am I trying to do something that isn't possible? Is "Replace Selected Item" only for graphics?

Thanks for any help.
Roger

[Bob Levine]

Why not just rename the new file the same as the old and just overwrite
the old file. Update the link and you're done.

Bob

[Nini Tjäder]

Roger - You say the cursor is loaded. That to me indicates you have not selected the content in the frame but the frame only. Select instead the content, with text-cursor, then place and replace selected.

[Roger_Piantadosi@adobeforums.com]

Thank you so much, Nini! Of course it works now (your solution also worked, Bob, thanks, although I really wanted to know what I was doing wrong inside ID) -- and the answer was so simple and logical. After this project is done, I will be taking my brain to the repair shop for a 50,000-mile checkup.
Roger