I have about 70 different brochures to create from a tri-folded, letter
sized, duplex printed sheet of paper.  Many of the elements are identical.  
This seemed to be the perfect place for a template, which I then created.  
About twenty brochures into the project, we decided that some of the wording
in a text box listing services offered which is in the template should be
changed.  Unfortunately, this requires that these changes be made to each of
the 20+ brochures that have been created.

This was not my intent.  What I wished to create is a common template (or a
Master Page) which could be LINKED to all of the brochures.  This would allow
a simple change of the linked template/master page and have all of the
brochures inherit the change on the next printing.  I have not found a way to
do this.  Linking a text file will not do the job, since I also need to honor
formatting changes that may also be made (font sizes, paragraph spacing, etc.)

Failing finding a way to link this information, I next made the change to
the common text box in the template.  Then I tried to copy and past it into
the existing brochures.  However, the copy/paste operation of the text box
(or the text withing the box) does not maintain formatting information
(line/paragraph spacing, font size) so that still has to be manually
reapplied.

Is there a better way?  Can I programmically import master pages from some
common source and apply them.

Thanks for any ideas.

Dave