Importing A4 word documents to indesign

Is it possible to import A4 files along with their whole Word configuration to indesign, without having to re-edit the whole thing?
Thanks!

What exactly do you mean? Page size has nothing to do with the text contained on the page.
If what you are saying is that you are happy with Word's layout and typography and want to import with exacly the same line endings and page breaks, the odds are pretty good that you'd be better off just uing the Word doc as-is and not bother with ID. If you want to use ligatures and have control over kerning and such, then bring the text into ID, but forget trying to match the layout exactly. ID has MUCH more typographic subtlety and control as well as much better layout control than Word and produces better looking documents with much less effort.

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Thanks Peter,
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Notes on importing from Word to InDesign CS6 and exporting via Kindle Plugin can be found on my blog at:
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Thanks
Dan

I use the script, below, for that. It's a bit scruffy, it should be tarted up. But it works fine. When you start it you type a path/file mask, using the formats illustrated in the dialog.
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Peter
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Importing Microsoft word documents that already have paragraph styles

Hello. I have been trying to figure out how to do this for months, this was taught to me many months ago but for some odd reason when I tried it myself it didn't work . I have my paragraph styles all set up in my indesign document. I have to import text that another person is giving me. The document that this person is giving me is a Microsoft word document. Someone showed me that you can customize the document in microsoft word, with styles for example: Selecting a part of text and customizing it (making it big and bold for example), then naming that style Heading, and then doing the same for lets say...a subheading. Well after you save the document (the microsoft word document), you are able to import the word document into your indesign file and it's supposed to override the styles from Microsoft Word and customize itself with your own paragraph or character styles that you already have in your indesign document, as long as the name of the styles are the same as the ones you had in microsoft word(which in this case would be heading and subheading). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Import of Word Document is not working

Hello, I wanted to import a word document but it is not
working. Draging droping is not working (just puts me link) and
through the menu (File > Import > Word Document ... ) is not
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Does somebody knows why.
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HI everyone,
This is my first post in Framemaker Community as I am moving from RH to FM.
I have an issue with respect to importing word documents to Framemaker.
After I have import a word to doc to FM multiple tab stops are created.
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Regards,
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