Need help with Book features

I have quite a bit of text in several Word documents, and am ready to assemble them into chapters in InDesign with a .indb (book) file. Because of style sourcing, I don't know what to do first, and can't find anything in Help about it.
Do I create separate .indd files first, insert the text from Word and then link all the files to .indb? OR
Do I create a series of empty .indd files and link them with .indb, then (I don't know where) synchronize styles in all of them >before< adding text? OR
Do I create and stylize just one chapter, which then becomes the stylistic model for all the other chapters?
Do I even need to use .indb? My book is going to be about 200 pages, and I am the only person working on it.
I am eager to get going on designing my book, just not sure where to begin to do it. I >think< I understand the .indb concept.

Hi Peter,
Thanks for answering my question.
I had a LOT of trouble figuring out last night how to post in the forums at
all (I'd also forgotten my IDs, which didn't help), so I was relieved just
to get into >any< InDesign forum! The system wouldn't let me into the plain
old InDesign forum (who knows why?), but >would< let me into Feature
Requests. And I decided that I was requesting information about a feature,
so no problem (sort of). Anyway, the Adobe forums are not very intuitive
like some others I post on. Many times the login wouldn't tell me I'd
gotten something wrong and would just bring up the home page again. It took
way too long to figure out what was going on, and then I had to figure out
how to post once I got to the forum. The last time I posted was a few years
ago, and it was just as tough then, so I wasn't relishing going through all
of that trouble again. It was trouble.
Thanks again for your help,
ceilr

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End if
this did not work. I got hte following error
Calculate started.<BR>Error executing VBScript Microsoft VBScript runtime
error, Line 259:Object doesn't support this property or method:
'HS.Custom4.Member'.<BR>Calculate finished.<BR>Error executing
VBScript %0.
I then changed it to the below and it still did not work
If pov_value = "<Entity Currency>" or pov_value = "<Entity Curr Adjs>" Then
If HS.Entity.Member = "XBM1123" then
HS.EXP "A#4400221.C4#IMPORT= A#4521111 + A#3526644 + A#635210"
End If
End if
error
Invalid Custom1 member
specified for this function.
Invalid Destination specified for this function:
A#4400221.C4#IMPORT.

You are close.
Try:
If pov_value = "<Entity Currency>" or pov_value = "<Entity Curr Adjs>" Then
    If HS.Entity.Member = "XBM1123" then
       HS.EXP "A#4400221.C4#IMPORT= A#4521111.C4#IMPORT + A#3526644.C4#IMPORT + A#635210.C4#IMPORT"
    End If
End if
or replace IMPORT with with Top_C4 or what ever member you need to copy to C4#IMPORT.
Rule of thumb, to be on the safe side and for most simple calcs, is if you mention a dimension on the left side, you need to define it on the right side as well.

Need help with Page Layout and Background Scaling

hello, everyone.
I am in the process of designing a new website for myself,
and while I was researching nicely designed pages to use as
inspiration, I stumbled upon this site:
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/
obviously, the design is very impressive, but it also
incorporates a lot of web mechanics that I have been trying to
figure out, so I will use this page as an example.
one thing I need help with is backgrounds. as you can see in
the posted website, the creator used a seamlessly tiled paper
texture to display the bulk of his content on. also make not of the
pattern that is located to the left of the paper texture. how do I
create seamless backgrounds like this that will scale to fit any
amount of content or any resolution? I can't imagine that the guy
that made that site created a new size background every time he
made an update, so there has to be an easier way.
the second thing that I am having trouble with is general
site layout. I have read that most sites used series of invisible
tables to organize there content, but when I open the source of
this page in dreamweaver, he was using something different. div
tags? should I be using these? who do I use them? are there any
general layout tips that someone could pass on to me? perhaps a
link to a good tutorial?
please help me. i am very confused.
thanks so much.

IMO not a good site to emulate. To wit:
Top background image:
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/images/bg-top.jpg;
745px
x 350px 137K
Main background image:
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/images/bg-tile.jpg;
745px x 950px 130K
Total page size: 454K (Check here:
www.websiteoptimization.com)
Website usability experts routinely recommend a maximum page
size of ~80K
Check out the We We Scale @ www.FutureNowInc.com/wewe/ where
they suggest,
"You speak about yourself approximately 0,003 times as often
as you speak
about your customers. Might that have an impact on your
effectiveness?"
That is 100% consistent with the #1 Web Design mistake:
"Believing people
care about you and your web site." or to phrase more
expansively, "Our site
tries to tell you how wonderful we are as a company, but not
how we're going
to solve your problems."
www.sitepoint.com has some excellent books on making a
website actually
attractive and usable at the same time.
Walt
"beWILLdered_" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> hello, everyone.
> I am in the process of designing a new website for
myself, and while I was
> researching nicely designed pages to use as inspiration,
I stumbled upon
> this
> site:
>
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/
> obviously, the design is very impressive, but it also
incorporates a lot
> of
> web mechanics that I have been trying to figure out, so
I will use this
> page as
> an example.
> one thing I need help with is backgrounds. as you can
see in the posted
> website, the creator used a seamlessly tiled paper
texture to display the
> bulk
> of his content on. also make not of the pattern that is
located to the
> left of
> the paper texture. how do I create seamless backgrounds
like this that
> will
> scale to fit any amount of content or any resolution? I
can't imagine that
> the
> guy that made that site created a new size background
every time he made
> an
> update, so there has to be an easier way.
> the second thing that I am having trouble with is
general site layout. I
> have
> read that most sites used series of invisible tables to
organize there
> content,
> but when I open the source of this page in dreamweaver,
he was using
> something
> different. div tags? should I be using these? who do I
use them? are there
> any
> general layout tips that someone could pass on to me?
perhaps a link to a
> good
> tutorial?
> please help me. i am very confused.
>
> thanks so much.
>

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