How to 'Paste' a Word doc into InDesign and keep all of the settings?

I've set up styles in the Word doc, that I was hoping would transfer into InDesign, once pasted. The Word doc is very large, and has hundreds of jpegs placed within it. My issue is that once it is pasted, the images are overlapping the text above it, as well as others.
How would I rectify this? ...Is this a Word settings problem, or a transferring/'pasting' problem?

BigEnd wrote:
When pasted from Word, the graphics are Inline by default. You can correct each one by selecting the graphic and then Anchored Object, Options and selecting Above Line (centered etc). What I do then is create an object style to these specs and this makes it quicker to apply to the graphics.
You say that there are very many graphics in the doc - does anyone know how to make the above settings the default when graphics are pasted from Word?
M
Thank you M, but I believe I figured it out:
I made styles in Word to make things a bit simpler when changing large sections of text, so within the settings of the images style select Format>Paragraph>Line and Page Breaks. Under 'Textbox Options' the Tight wrap defaults to 'None' - Select 'All'.
When the file is placed into InDesign, the images don't overlap, and are exactly where they need to be.

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