Embedding a Topic Inside Another Topic

If you're creating a topic whose content differs only slightly from the content of another, you have a couple of options:

• Use an embedded topic for the common part of both topics. This is good when you want to be able to update both topics at once.
• Copy the text from one topic into the other. This is good when you want to be able to update one topic without affecting the other.

Let's look at that first option.

To Embed a Topic:

1. Open the topic you want to embed into (the container topic).
2. From the Library Explorer or the Book's Contents, select the topic that you want to embed (the source topic).
3. Drag the source topic and drop it into position inside the container topic. A shortcut menu is displayed.
4. Choose Embed Topic. The contents of the source topic are embedded into the container topic. The embedded topic is colored light gray to remind you that you cannot change it directly from inside the container topic (although you can open it to make changes).
5. Save your changes.