Bring foreign text doc into title tool / project

Hi: I'm editing on CS4 and have 4 foreign language videos to edit. I tried this on CS3 and it worked but doesn't seem to work on CS4. I have a word doc on my desktop, the computer sees it as a text doc as word is not on the edit computer. I tried to cut it and paste it into the open title tool, but it doesn't seem to work. How can I bring a foreign text doc into my project? My system is a new PC workstation running XP professional so its got the capability to read Portugiese and Polish. I have to install the Cantonese font. Thanks, Christine

Okay, I've got it working now. What I had to do is open the word doc on my office computer and resave it as an rtf rather than txt to keep the special fonts. I took it over to the workstation. SInce it was rft it could open it and all I had to do then was cut and paste it into the title tool.
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