Placing InDesign files into inDesign files

This is more a two-part workflow question to make sure I start off on a good footing.
I'm working with another person putting together a 40 page brochure that has 6 different sections formatted the same way, with some photos plus a cover.
I'm doing a good chunk of formatting the sections and then sending them to him so he can collate the whole thing with his sections, so that the printer will get a complete InDesign publication. He has a master page all set with the footer title and page number, and will copy my files over onto these.
He supplied me with some Paragraph styles but i had to tweak some of them due to client requests.
1.What would/is the best way to merge my files with his? He's Copying each page and pasting my files into his master page template?
-Can they just be inserted/placed as additional pages into his document? What's the easiest way?
- He did this, and the text came in a little odd, with spaces and some odd formatting. It's creating a little more work and am wondering what to do to make this transition a little less painful as we near the end of a long project.
I sent him my document, told him to:
- load my styles
- in preferences, set baseline grid as I have it
(margins and columns are set exactly the same)
Once he pastes in my files, they should now align closely to the way I had them. I tried a test and it seemed to work.
One question, if the baseline grid is set as i had it in my documents, will the copy that he has on his own document files get altered by default when he changes the settings to those I had?
Any overview on this issue will be illuminating as always!
Thanks,
Julian

You'll make your life easier if you break down tasks and
responsibilities. It would be best if you could work independently on
separate chapters (and then put the chapters together using the Book
feature), but if you both have to work on all the files, it's important
that you duplicate style changes, maybe begin with a comprehensive
design sample that you both agree on, and then save your files from that
one sample.
Very difficult to have two designers working on one book. Much better to
have one author hand everything off to one designer.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

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