Issues importing text in from Word.

I have just learned how to place text from Word into InDesign, more importantly how to flow the text on multiple pages. However, the word document I have was created by someone else and from what I can tell each “column” on each page are individual text boxes, furthermore each new line has been “returned/entered”  from the last to create a column. I can’t imagine why the maker of this document didn’t use the column button but is there any way that I can smoothly transfer this information?! Currently I am copy/pasting into a new document to have a running text then will go back and delete all the enter/returns.
Basically, I am trying to take one entire book from word and drop it into indesign...
Thanks!

Importing a badly written Word document will result in a bad InDesign document ...
To quickly change all hard returns, you can select these lines and do a Find/Replace. In the Find What field, enter the code for a hard return: ^p (it's a code, rather than pressing the Return key).
In the Replace With field, enter a single space. Make sure the search scope dropdown at the bottom is set to "Selection", then hit "Change all". You wouldn't want to change all hard returns in your entire document into spaces!
To finish this off, you might want to search for a double space and replace with a single space. Repeat until ID reports "No changes made".

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