Importing and retaining greek text from word into IndCS3

Have a word document in Greek. Word file is in Times New Roman and views in word correctly as font is loaded. I wish to import into Indesign CS3 and format accordingly, but, when I do it does not keep greek language it comes in as all pink missing text. Have tried selecting greek language in character palette but does not fix problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
thanks
sonja

>Have tried selecting greek language
What would you expect from that? Auto-translation?
>all pink missing text
That's a visual clue, not meant to indicate "missing text" (how would ID know that it's missing?), but rather that the characters used in the text are not in your current selected font. Select another font -- which
i has
Greek characters --, and you'll be fine.

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