Copy and paste from INDD to INDD: format changes

Using CS3 501. i've got an indesign file with some text, with good paragraph styles applied.
a colleague opens a copy of the file, copies some text, and pastes into a blank file bringing all para styles that are used on that text. everything looks perfect.
when i open his file then copy the text, and paste in place into my doc, the formatting is wrong. i click to 'remove all overrides' and everything is correct.
i imagined that INDD to INDD pasting would have been perfect. it certainly made me jump! is there a way to get around this?
many thanks.

Depends what your colleague did to the text. Sounds like he applied local styling.
There could be an issue if your Basic Paragraph style definition is different from his and your styles are based on Basic Paragraph.
Dave

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