Help! How do you adapt an InDesign document in various languages?

Hi everyone...we are presently working on a user manual which we designed in English. We need to adapt this manual in 4 other languages. Is there anya feature in InDesign that changes the language in the doucument without going through the process of applying styles etc? (The doc is 90pages) Thanks

Sorry, OP, I can't even really tell for certain what you're asking for. It sounds like you want to click a button that will automatically machine translate your document, and then autoformat so you don't need to do any post-translation DTP cleanup. I want that button, too, but
a) it might be a decade or two before the technology exists to make that happen, and
b) when it happens, I'm out of a job.
So, assuming you're not looking for an InDesign feature that completely translates and formats a document automagically, what are you trying to do? What are your target languages? Are the translations being provided by contractors, or do you have translators and editors in-house? There is a magic-bullet tool that will flow a translated document into ID and retain all style information, but it still requires some post-translation DTP cleanup, it costs about $5k (at the absolute minimum), and you need some years of experience using it to be able to process an InDesign doc without accidentally scrambling your translation.
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