Adobe Indesign and Ms Word

Hi,
My job primarily involves the usage of Ms Word file with lots of tect and graphics used on it. Now, I found Adobe Indesign to be a powerful tool. However, most of the word documents which i generally use have pages ranging +100.
As I am a new user to this tool, how can i make the usage of adobe indesign to make my life simpler with the word documents? Actually, most of the time i import any word documents in the work space ,only two or three pages gets imported. slightly confusing.
I would like to know, how can we import whole of the word document with the formatting and styles applied and along with the graphics?
Suggestions would be very helpful.
Thanks
Bijoy Raj Guha

Use the file place command and browse to your Word file.
From the place window enable show options. This is fairly self explanatory as far as mapping styles from Word to ID
Shift+click on the first page of your ID document to automatically create as many new pages as needed.
As for the graphics, a great deal will depend upon the source files, how they were placed into the Word document and whether these are DOC or DOCX files.
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