Putting borders around paragraphs or lists or things like that is not one of InDesign's strengths, unfortunately. You could make a one-cell table (table > insert table, 1 col by 1 row) and cut and paste the text into it, I suppose. Or you could just put the list into its own frame and just position it on the page, or (if you need to) anchor it into the flow.

If either of these things is confusing, I strongly recommend getting a copy of my book Real World InDesign

https://creativepro.com/res…..and-videos

or check out the InDesign Essential Training videos at lynda.com (here's a 1-week free trial):

https://www.lynda.com/trial/ind…..ignsecrets

This is not exactly what you want, but it's getting closer:

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

For video training, I suggest:

https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-…..3&opt=

You can do that in InDesign. Just select the object with the Selection (black arrow) tool, then click the Pen tool. Hover over a point to delete it, hover over a line segment to add a point… you can use the Convert Direction tool (click and hold the pen tool to see additional tools) to change from corner to curve, etc.

Here's a link: https://creativepro.com/edi…..-frame.php

InDesign CS5.5 does allow you to make multiple master pages.

But it does not allow alternate layouts.

You need to change the Poster in the Media panel.

More info here:

https://creativepro.com/usi…..ercase.php

and

https://creativepro.com/con…..tility.php

I think there are potentially two things happening here. First, when I want to print something with just black ink on my xerox color laser printer, I MUST click on the Printer button in the Print dialog box. This opens the printer driver dialog box, where I can control things relevant just for my printer. I can set it to Black and White there! That way, the driver only sends grayscale information to the printer.

Second, InDesign CS5 cannot create grayscale PDFs. They always appear to be tagged internally as color. You should, however, be able to print them as B&W on your printer from Acrobat, but only if you set that in the printer driver.

As for the automatic color to B&W to color… hm…. not sure. I wonder if you exported as PDF, then used Acrobat's Convert Colors feature to convert just the inner pages to grayscale. It might work, but I tend to be skeptical of any “intelligence” inside a printer that could truly tell the difference between one page and the next.