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If you reuse an object that contains other objects, you can change the child objects to something different. For example, you have a block object containing a text item in the page header, and you decide to reuse the block in the page footer. However, you want the text item in the page footer block to show different text from that in the page header.

To Change a Reused Object:

1. In the parent object that you want to reuse, click the child object you want to change.
2. In the Properties pane, in the Name property, type a value beginning with a letter to uniquely identify the object.
3. Select the copy of the parent object you created with the Layout Component Reference object.
4. In the Properties pane, double-click the Component Overrides property.
5. In the Component Overrides dialog box, select the child object you want to change and click OK.
   
   The child object in the copy of the parent object is replaced by the following text:
   
   Drag & drop object to override component child.
6. Drag the object that you want to replace the child object.
   
   You can replace the child object with any other object, not just an object of the same type. For example, if the child object is a text item, you can replace it with an image.

Related Topics:

• Reusing a Layout Object—How to reuse a layout object.
• Updating a Reused Object—How to update a reused layout object.

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