Reply To: New to InDesign — Book Creation MS Word-InDesign Workflow Question

I’m just wondering why, if your book includes chapters, they all have to be in a single Word document. Would it not make sense to have each chapter as a separate Word document and then, if you need to add a new chapter, it could be a new Word document? Each chapter can then be placed in InDesign (perhaps even in separate InDesign documents using the Book feature) and laid out as necessary. This would also allow an easy reshuffling of chapter order, should that prove necessary at some future stage.

Or have I missed a point somewhere?