InDesign language question

I have an InDesign document created in English, and it needs to have a version translated to Chinese. Someone translated the text for me and gave it to me in a Word doc. I can't copy and paste the Chinese characters from Word into InDesign, so I must be missing some feature in InDesign. What do I need to install and how do I go about getting InDesign to recognize the Chinese characters that I need to paste from Word?

If you do not have Yahei, you might try replacing it with Adobe Heiti Std, bundled with CS6 packages (don't forget that the CJK fonts are down at the bottom of ID's font list). English-language ID can handle Chinese, but if you need the special features available in CJK versions you must use either a Chinese version or the World Tools Pro plugin. But you really might be able to get by with straight English IDCS6.
Good luck!
David

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Am 12.06.2013 um 16:31 schrieb Mylenium <[email protected]>:
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