Should InDesign be used for an academic journal?

Hi,
As an editor, I have been looking into the possibility of using InDesign as a layout program for an academic journal at our university. We currently use Word. I was wondering what the experts think of using InDesign for this function, in light of the nature of our journal. It is a 150-250 page volume put out twice a year. Besides the cover (which does not change), there are no graphics or images used, nor is there any special use of text or borders. It is simply a chaptered book with each chapter containing a new article, using only single column text, footnotes, and headers.
As I work through the tutorials, I am getting the idea that InDesign may not be that useful for our purposes because we are doing fairly basic word processing. What do others think of this? Is it unnecessary? What would be the advantages to using InDesign for production of a text-only book such as ours?
Thanks very much for any input you could provide!

With a little practice, you can format long runs of text in ID at an astounding rate. Just this week, I formatted a book of 58 chapters, no images (well, only two), and the odd heading and sub-heading here and there. It took me 22 hours for 650 pages. Halfway, I had to revisit the chapters I already had done to do a few last-minute changes, so for the next volume I think it'll take, oh, 16 hours maybe.
(My two main speed-tricks are:
1. Use templates. Each of the chapters of that big book was a separate file, tacked together using the Book function. For a journal consisting of articles of about 20 pages each, you might want to do that as well. Always keep your templates clean and up-to-date -- if you change a global text style, use the Synchronize Book option to update all files, but don't forget to update the template as well.
2. Set hotkeys for all major paragraph and character styles. Don't bother about this for low-frequency stuff like chapter titles, as there are precious few 'comfortable' shortcut combo's. Assign them to body text, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level headings, indenting quotes; in other words, all stuff that comprised about 90% of your typical body text.
I've been using the same style hierarchy and names for years now (something over a decade), and I can apply the top 10 at a stroke of my fingertips; others get the Quick Apply treatment. No mouseing around required.)

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