How can I transfer elements from an old document to a new one?

Hi everybody,
I'm quite new to InDesign and not really from this area, so I'm having a tough time learning how to use it. My first project is what I first thought would be simple for a start: a recipe book. So I started using different master pages for different categories - meat, fish, soups, etc. - and had my first problem when finding out it is not a good idea to have text frames in the master page, cause everytime I change something there and apply it to the others, it kind of messes up the existing pages and I get lots of duplicated frames. it got so messed up I figured the best thing would be to start a completely new document (I also found out I had the wrong margins and can use a normal A4 with bleed, and no bigger-sized page, as I'd done).
Now I decided to start the whole thing over again, but I don't want to start from zero. So how can I:
1) import my existing gradients?
2) import my character styles and colors?
3) import my texts? (I guess this is not very difficult, so I figure I can find out, but please tell me if there are any "tricks", cause I'm thinking of exporting my doc as txt and copy-pasting.)
I'm sorry if this has already been posted in this forum or can be found in the help-section, but I swear I have looked for it and couldn't find it...
Thanks already in advance!

easiest are steps 1) and 2) :)
make copy of your document, add new blank page on the end, select all pages without last - click delete icon :)
next - delete all MasterPages
next - redefine page size, margins, add MasterPages, etc.
now - you can copy&paste your texts from old document :)
robin
www.adobescripts.com

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