Reformatting problems combining multiple indesign docs

My daughter's school newspaper has 24 pages. Each page is laid out using InDesign and is a separate document. When all the pages are done, they combine all 24 pages into one big InDesign doc. But when they do this, some pages will randomly reformat the text, adding spaces, changing line breaks, etc. They then have to go through the whole thing and re-do all the changes that occurred when the pages were combined. Does anyone know what settings should be in place so that this random reformating problem does not happen?
Thanks for your help and feedback!

There's nothing random about it. When you move a page from one ID doc to
another if you have identically named styles the definition in the ID doc
that is being added to takes over.
Use the book feature to avoid this.

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