Simple Book Formatting Question

Hello everyone, I am looking for an answer to a quick layout question.  My organization and I have been publishing a book using Microsoft Word for many years now.  To save money, we print out all the pages ourselves, then take them to the publisher to be bound.  Because of this, in Word, we had to change the left and right page margins for every other page, in order to keep everything looking even in the binding.
We have recently decided to switch to Indesign to make the book more professional.  My question is, will I have to continue alternating margins manually, or is there an easier way to do it?  We are not professionals, and I am working my way through the Indesign tutorials and help files, but I wanted to ask this question here, since it's a little unusual.  Thanks for your time.

Easier way.
In Indesign, File > New Document brings up a Page Setup dialog where you can turn Facing Pages on or off. If you turn it on, you'll get margins expressed as Top, Bottom, Inside, Outside. "Inside" margin means left on a right page, right on a left page.
Ken
BTW, you don't actually have to do this manually in Word, either.

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