Reply To: Merging Paragraph Styles from an old doc to a new one

Here's how I did it, in a similar situation:

Make sure that your Idd type preference is set to “When pasting from other applications, Paste Text only”

Select your text in the source doc with the type tool and copy it.

Paste it into TextEdit (Mac) or Notepad (PC). Repeat for all the text you need.

Select all and copy.

Paste into your new Idd doc. It will retain special characters and returns, but it will all be in the paragraph style you specify for the new text.

Kind of an roundabout hack, but it worked for me.