Placing Text from MS Word Or RTF documents

[RWB]

I've searched for hours on how to place text and manage style when placing a word doc or RTF and I cannot find any answers to what I would think is a relatively simple work-flow thing. I desperately want to migrate off of In Design but what seems to be a simple thing may be a show stopper.

The work flow is simple... 

1. I receive VERY simple word documents and VERY simple RTF documents from multiple sources I need to incorporate into a consolidated layout. They pretty much are only things Markdown can do with the typical very standard style labels. (IE Normal, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, bold, etc)

2. I receive drafts to start, proof, and finalize the layout.

3. As things proceed I receive tons of revisions via those same DOCX and RTF files I've already placed.

4. Here's the rub... If I touch any of those incoming styles to make them what is required for the layout/design the very next time I place any revision instead of using those styles I've already modified it creates a new version (IE "Normal 2") that reverts back to whatever "Normal" was... 

 

There MUST be a way to place DOCX and RTF docs and just use the style definitions I setup with the same names instead of creating a new version with a new name based on incoming document??? What am I missing? I've experimented and there just seems to be no reasonable workflow to accomplish this without redoing a crap ton of work over and over and over and over again. This seems like a very basic thing for assembling a periodic publication that has many contributors...

 

Thanks and PLEASE let there be an answer I don't want to be stuck with Adobe forever.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, RWB said:

... if I touch any of those incoming styles ...

Don't 'touch', Replace. Use the find and replace feature. Search for Normal 1 which has just come in via an rtf/word revision (and is wrong somehow), replace it with Normal which you have set up. Then delete all unused styles, then save a Revised by x with material from a, b and c.

[RWB]

21 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Don't 'touch', Replace. Use the find and replace feature. Search for Normal 1 which has just come in via an rtf/word revision (and is wrong somehow), replace it with Normal which you have set up. Then delete all unused styles, then save a Revised by x with material from a, b and c.

Thanks... I figured that out but it's still a manual process with every revision which can add up to a lot of time with a lot of contributing writers and a lot of revisions. I cannot believe there is not a simple override something like Affinity style names override incoming document or something... Easy peasy. Nothing complicated with a ton of options...

[Catshill]

In APub use Edit > Paste  - Text retains bold and italics but also creates a new style based on the Imported style formatting

From Text Styles tab select hamburger icon to the right of the required style

Choose "Apply body text to paragraphs and preserve character formatting"