Importing Text with continuous pages

I am new to In Design.
I have tried every word I could think of in the help menus to find this:
I don't really get how to add pages in an imported text doc.
Or to have automatically added pages in any doc, for that matter.
I imported a WORD text doc and it comes as a text contained somehow in the cursor.
I click with the cursor inside a new doc and the first page of the text shows.
But I can't for the life of me find how to add the rest of the text of the doc in further pages. I know the text is there in the cursor.
Can someone either explain or point me at the explanation for auto-adding pages in a text doc as needed, like a Word processor would do?
And how to get the rest of this imported doc to show up as text in added pages? Nice would be to be able to import a text and have it show up immediately in as many pages as are needed to contain it.
Thanks much,
Mark

Dear Mark,
I'm still learning too (CS3).
Are you using "Place" command? What happens if you hold shift key when you import?
I found in the Help under "Flow text manually or automatically". I got to that from "Threaded Text".
Maybe someone more knowledgeable can add to this.
HTH,
RdD

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