5) Go back to your original InDesign document with the list. Make sure your Selection/Arrow tool is still highlighted in the Toolbox panel, but that no element in the original file is selected. Choose the File/Place... menu command, navigate your way to the desktop and place your TheList.pdf file. You now have a graphic frame version of your old text frame, which you can size for frame and/or content size like any other InDesign graphic.