Placing objects that are cropped to the content

[MarieMeyer]

I have some objects on individual pages in an InDesign document that I'd like to place into a different ID document. I'd like to "crop" them to just the content, not place the page itself. I've worked out that I can do that by going from ID to PDF to AI. But is there a more direct route?

[Eternal Warrior · Accepted solution]

Just copy and paste straight from InDesign.. you're making it more complicated than needs be.

[BobLevine]

You've got the correct answer already but note that any item that you copy/paste from one document to another will also carry the original link with it. If you use the edit>original command it will edit that content in both files.