Pasting several pages of text

When one creates an Indesign document one has to say how many pages it is made up of. How do I know how many pages it is going to be? In MS word one starts with a one page document which is made longer as one adds text and other content.

Worse still, even if one over estimates, then when we go to paste or "place" (a nerdy term) several pages of text then the text is pasted all onto the same page, meaning that only the first page of the text is visible.

The solution

Press the shift key while pasting the text and it will autofill (or something) onto the next pages.