Can I import a Word document into Creative Suites?

I have a Word document I would like to work on in Creative Suites for all the added capabilities. The only way I found was thru Cut and Paste....is there a quicker way to import the whole document.

You can use File --> Place in InDesign to import Word and Excel files and retain quite a lot of the formatting. Otherwise, no, they are simply two different worlds and copy&paste is as good as it gets for most programs.
Mylenium

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Colum has good advice. Also, since you're new to this, there
are a few curiosities that occur that can be puzzling to newcomers.
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http://www.grainge.org/
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I am working on my thesis with several Pages documents (for the first time). And I really have searched all over the Internet to find an answer to exactly my question but I cannot find it.
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word document since I would have to remap all the IDs again.)
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