Pasting an image

Pasting an image into a body of text is, in MS Word, easy to do. I usually create a button in Word (options > user > Instert, then drag the yellow file icon to the tool bar) so that I can paste (or "place") images with a click.

One of the nice things that Word does is to resize the image to fit the page into which one is pasting. Even if the image is very large, it is pasted to fill the page from margin to margin.

Indesign however does not do this for you. The process is longwinded.

My Solution
1) Using the "rectangular frame tool" (The icon is a square crossed out on the left hand side of the screen) create the frame for your picture.
2) Paste (place) the image when this frame is selected. The paste/place command is achieved with Ctrl + D ("intuitive") and found inside the file menu.
3) Then using right click to display a long list of options, select to arrange the picture to fit inside the frame.
4) Adjust one side of the frame (top or side) that is too big, to fit the picture.
If you don't mind not maintaining the ratio between height and width of your image then you can rize the image to fit the frame, thus avoiding step 4.