Chinese text in Indesign CS3

Hi,
I have a computer (WXPSP3 EN) with Adobe Creative Suite CS3 (incl. InDesign) installed. Now the user has a problem with Chinese text, he never used before. He got a Word file with the translation English => Chinese and copied the text from Word to InDesing :-)
The text is not displayed. It seems that there is a font missing, is this possible? Do I need a special InDesign font for Chinese text? If yes, which one? A link would be helpful. Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm using chinese text, too, for the chinese version of the german/english user guides I'm creating.
For me it never was a problem. You probably need to know this:
1. In general, you need to install support for CJK (chinese, japanese, korean) language on Windows
(Word may display the text without the support installed because it can embed fonts into .doc files)
2. If you then copy text from Word to Indesign, it should be displayed correctly, whereas Indesign manages a list of substitution fonts for this situation
If 2. does not work, you could try to replace the font in Word first by, for example, SimSun (of the chinese Windows fonts). Of course only if simplified chinese is used.
Then copy and paste should. At least it does for me in CS2 and CS4.

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