InDesign should import all the rows, including the header row. You are using File > Place, yes? Maybe make sure the Import Options dialog box is including all the rows?

I think you should be able to do both cell borders and a border frame. But you have to apply the cell styles INSIDE the table style definition. If you apply the cell styles “on top” of the frame style (separately, as “local formatting”) then it may not work.

The Cross-references panel (in hyperlinks) lets you create cross-document x-refs… it can be a little clunky and slow at times if there are a lot of them. I usually recommend having all the documents open at the same time when you're doing this.

Hard to know why the text is disappearing. Some ideas in here: https://creativepro.com/the…..g-text.php

But I rarely use indent to here anymore; much easier to set a positive left indent and negative first line indent: https://creativepro.com/how…..margin.php

Nope.

What is it about the blog post solution (numbering in a separate frame) that doesn't work for you?

Don't know of anything like that, sorry.

Instead of piecing them together with the book panel, you might consider placing one INDD file into another:

https://creativepro.com/ind…..gn-cs3.php

Sounds like you're getting close. Here's one article about it:

https://creativepro.com/mul…..design.php

But you can change the Mode pop-up menu to “Start At” and then set it to 2 (to make the list always start at 2).

Do you mean you want to move all the objects on a layer across ALL pages in the document? InDesign does not allow you to select objects on more than one spread at a time, unfortunately.

There is a script called adjustlayout that can help in some cases. See blog post and comments afterward at:

https://creativepro.com/adj…..reflow.php