Why does this text automatically update?

[Azeral]

I'm editing a newsletter used by former staff members created in Publisher
2003. (I'm using the same program.) There is a text box on each page in the
same spot that says "Volume # Issue #." When I edit it on the first page it
automatically changes on all the other pages. I don't think it is an object,
embedded or linked or otherwise, because the "Edit Objects" option is greyed
out. What is it, and how can I edit/replicate it?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

It's synchronized text. From Publisher's Help File:
When you create a publication from a Publisher wizard or by using Publisher
Design Gallery Objects, the individual objects that make up that publication
are synchronized. This synchronization means that any formatting changes
that you apply to an individual element within an object will automatically
apply to the similar elements in that object. For example, if you change the
color of one shape in an Accessory Bar that you insert from the Design
Gallery, all of the related shapes in that Accessory Bar will be updated
with the same color automatically.

You can't "create" a synchronized item. It's only done thru the Wizard.
Bummer, isn't it? I wish we *could* add that in different places.