Reply To: Word to Indesign! Help!

You must understand that the Book panel will only allow you to add InDesign documents.

Basically, the Book is a “workflow manager” for multi-document InDesign projects, and you can't add Word files to the Book from the same reason the you can't simply have them opened (File > Open) by InDesign and automatically converted into InDesign documents.

It's the same issue with PDF and any other file format that InDesign is unable to convert from its original format to InDesign document.

So the basic workflow you're looking for is: Create a new InDesign document > place the Word file > layout the placed content > save the InDesign document > add the InDesign document to the Book.

To give your documents a consecutive look and feel, I'd suggest working with a template file.