Given Word, Whether InDesign

I am struggling with whether to buy and learn InDesign. I have used Microsoft Word to create and publish several books. Some of them ended up on Google Books (a direct conversion to .pdf) and others I published privately using Kinko's (also in .pdf). In the process I have greatly enriched my vocabulary of obscenities regarding Microsoft software. Without thinking ahead I wrote all of them in standard 8.5 x 11 inch format, 12 point New York font so I could proof them with my printer and standard paper. They include complex tables, spreadsheets, photographs, multiple sections and pagination schemes, etc. all of which pushed the limits of Word and my frustration. These were tests of endurance that depleted my primary creative writing energy. Now I find to my dismay that the 8.5x11 format is no good for a conventionally published book if I have any hope of reaching a larger audience. I have discovered that the preferred book publishing formats, such as 9x6 and 8.5x5.5 are incompatible with my finished files which must be reformatted almost page by page.I simply don't have the heart to do all that unplanned extra work And for my new books I am hoping for some software that I can input all the text, graphics, photos, tables, etc. just one time only and then as my last step decide on an appropriate size format without further effort. My online research about InDesign did not answer my burning questions.
What can I realistically expect from InDesign importing my finished 8.5x11 books?
How difficult and how long is the InDesign learning curve?
Any wisdom out there will be greatly appreciated.
Jay

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.. for my new books I am hoping for some software that I can input all the text, graphics, photos, tables, etc. just one time only and then as my last step decide on an appropriate size format without further effort. ..
InDesign requires you to think ahead as well. If you are planning to change page sizes at the very last moment, ID can help you (use Layout Adjustment to size your frames; exclusively use inline figures and tables, or anchored objects) but it's not realistic to expect a complicated layout to stay the same when the page size changes.
Much as I hate to suggest, perhaps Framemaker is more appropriate for you?
FrameMaker requires as much advance planning to accommodate painless, document- and book-wide last-minute layout changes as InDesign, perhaps more, because it lacks a counterpart to InDesign's intelligent format-adjustment technology for repositioning page objects that are outside the main story.
Much as I really hate to suggest any weakness in FrameMaker, if you're suggesting FrameMaker because you expect that its ability to significantly reformat a document, by importing master pages from another template, is nearly trouble-free, it's not. True, it works so well because most FrameMaker document layouts consist of a single threaded story - aka "text flow" in Frame-ese. Objects anchored outside text frames are used instead of page objects. And FrameMaker's "floating" attribute for inline tables and anchored frames, with sufficient planning and careful placement of these anchored objects, is a terrific help. It back-flows text into the unsightly gaps caused by floating objects that flow ahead to the next text frame or page when there's insufficient room for them in the current container. InDesign anchored objects lack this floating attribute.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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