Auotmating Text from Word into InDesign

Here is my situation: I am the graphic artist and layout person for the company that I work for. We produce layouts that have a pretty consistent format. Each layout has definite text sections. These text sections are written by the research editor and put into a single word document. I then have to copy and past the various text sections into the layout in InDesign.
I know that if my Research Editors worked in InCopy it would elminate the need for me to copy and paste the text from word doc into the the layout document. The problem is that one of the editors is a contract worker that is outside the office.
I was wondering if there was some way to set up a template in word. The idea would be that once the document is finished it could be imported into InDesign in a way that it would automatically populate the the text sections in the layout.

Well you know what I mean, by copy and paste. I place the text in first to preserve the formatting.
This seems backwards, to me. Is the "formatting" in the Word document based on styles? If it is, you can map your InDesign styles to your Word styles on import. If it's not, then I find it much faster to change the formatting into styles immediately upon import.
If you're not using any defined styles at all in your InDesign document, then yeah, I guess that copying and pasting is faster and a better way to preserve the manually applied formatting in Word. But why do that, when using well-defined styles in ID can be significantly faster?

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