Creating a collapsable panel in InDesign

Hello,
Is there anyway in InDesign to create a collapsible panel effect like you can do in flash and DW. Something like an accordion effect?
I have 5 paragraphs of text visible to show different topics, but I would like to place all the text for each one in that space and then just have the user click a button and expand that section to see all of the type.
Can that be done using the interactive InDeign features? Or the DPS ones? Is that even feasible? And if so, does anyone know a good tutorial to point me to that could get me to the best approach for this?
thanks
babs

Thanks Bob-since I was on a time limit, I did do it in InDesign, just with buttons and animations and it worked fine. Didn't want to chance trying something new like this. I am going to work on Importing the HTML and testing the asset issue over the weekend when I have some time to really test that.
As always, many thanks for the guidance!
babs

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