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Now two problems you are going to encounter when you open InDesign documents are missing links and missing fonts. We'll talk about fonts in the next movie, but here we're going to talk briefly about links. Now, we go into links in a lot more detail, so I'm going to gloss it over here, but I think you should know it At this stage, because you will encounter it. When you place a graphic photograph as in this case, with the watch here, in InDesign, it doesn't put it in the InDesign document; it creates a link to where it is on your hard drive. If that link is missing, you're going to get an error. So let's force it. I'm just going to close this out and we're going to switch over to Bridge. I'll click here and here is the watch. I've got it in a folder. I'm going to right click and cut it, and I'm going to go to another folder and paste it there. Let's go back to InDesign here and I'm just going to open that document through open recent. It's the very first one here and you will see a warning like this. That's because it's not where this document thinks it is. I've changed the path, or you can simply hit don't fix. Now, when you don't fix it like that, it'll look fine on the screen but you will have problems when you go out to print it because it won't print properly. It's only printing this low resolution image and it can cause very serious problems if you're going out to commercial printing, so we need to solve it. So let me just close out here and we'll open the document again. Open recent and here we want to fix it this time. We'll ignore the don't fix and now what we've got to do is to navigate to where this now is located. I put it in tutorial files 2. Here it is. We get a preview of what it is. Open. It re-established that link here. Notice that my links box came up here. My links palette came flying up. I don't need it anymore and it shows that this is now linked. Now, that is what happens when you move things about or perhaps accidentally delete them, so you can continue working on this. Say you take this file home and it's got 100 links in it and you don't take the links home. You can work on it fine, but as long as you're not going to print it or create a PDF or something, then when you bring it back into the office the next day, put it in the same folder and it'll re-link it to everything. So it's a great feature. It keeps the file small. You'll be able to e-mail it to yourself and not have to worry about sending all those links with it.