Re- Sizing a whole book

I create a book in InDesign and I later found out that I made the book at the wrong size. I made it at 8.5x11, but it had to be made in 6x9. I wanted to know is there was a way to re size or re scale the book down at once or do i have to go to each page and resize them one by one?

If you jsut want to scale the exisitng file to the new size, you can place the pages from the current file in a new document using the script at InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Zanelli Releases MultiPageImporter for Importing both PDF and INDD Files
Understand though that this will reduce the size of the type and everything else, and the two sizes are not the same shape, so your margins may look funny.
If you want to keep the type the same size, make a copy of the file, then enable Layout Adjustment, then change the document size in Document Setup. No go to the master pages and adjust the margins for the new dimensions, if required. Text will reflow, and not all things will adjust, so there will be massive amonts of overset text and other things to deal with.

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