InDesign CS3 Building a book

Hi,
A simple question (I hope!): Is it possible to build a book with no break between chapters? I am formatting a dictionary-like book and I want the beginning of each letter section/chapter to immediately follow the previous letter section/chapter. The book is over 400 pages long and so I'd really like to use the book features in ID -- if possible. If it's not possible, I want to know that and move on to plan B. Can anyone help?
Thank you! -Sharon

>no break between chapters
Do you mean that if a chapter ends in the middle of page 27, you want the next chapter to begin in the middle of page 27? That's not what the Book function does. It is designed to string documents together, allow page numbers to self-adjust with pagination changes, and coordinate styles. If you want to break your large file down into smaller chapters, you can still use the book function, but I don't know of a way for copy to dynamically flow between InDesign documents, which is what would have to happen if I understand your scenario correctly.

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    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.importUnusedStyles = false;
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       missed = [];
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          try
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             placedstory.insertionPoints[-1].contents = '\r\r';
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          UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
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       if( missed.length > 0 )
          inform += '\r\rCould not place:\r\r' + missed.join('\r');
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       alert( inform );
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       alert( mask + ' not found.' );
    // End
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       var progressbar = progresswindow.add( 'progressbar', undefined, 1, stop );
       progressbar.preferredSize = [200,20];
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    Copy and paste everything between the hyphen lines (not including the hyphen lines) into a text editor and save with a .js extension and put it in your scripts folder. Should be something like:
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