Reply To: ID CC style for italic stripping out Roman on imported text

What David says in his second link above is what I do. I layout lots of books and never have time to play with the Word files first. What I’ve done is set up a book/page layout template in InDesign which includes Paragraph styles like body text etc. but, for this purpose, several Character Styles: Italic, Bold, Bold Italic etc. I use a plugin called MultiFindChange from http://www.automatication.com. It’s brilliant because you can put a whole list of changes you’d like to make to the Word file as soon as you import it.
When you import the Word file, don’t do anything to it until you’ve run through the Find/Change sequence, either one at a time or using the MultiFindChange. Hope it helps you as much as it has helped me. I love it!