Is it a way cut and paste text and have paragraph style it

Can I cut and paste from a word document in have indesign style it like below. Or do I have to one by one style it like below.
Laura Benner
Director of Human Resources
Tiffany & Co.
600 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 755-8000

You can use Apply Style, then next style to format each contact all at once. If all of the address info is exactly 4 lines long, you could have the phone number in a separate style, with Name as its next style. You could then style the whole list in one motion.

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When using paragraph styles I come up against several problems that I haven't been able to figure out with the help menu:
1. When I change a para with the style list it doesn't change the para to the chosen parameters. It changes for instance the font but not the size. How do I make sure that the chosen text gets changed completely?
2. When I want to create a new style from selection it does not create a style that turns up in future lists. I only get to choose what is already somewhere in the text I am writing and what seems to be a default list that shows up with every new document. To change to something else I have to find a text that has the format I want, copy a piece of it, put it into the text I am working on and then try and change the paragraph style. How can I make sure that I have the styles I want at my disposal whatever I am working on? Can I somehow edit the choices in the style drawer?
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ravenowl wrote:
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Is that possible we find the text then apply the paragraph style every find text.
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/455526?tstart=0
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Well, I said it was untested ... Found two major errors. First one is also visible when you manually search for the style "Callout_3". Rather than marking each and every paragraph on its own, InDesign gathers as much as possible. Hence, just testing paragraph[0] would miss out all other paragraphs. Explicitly looping over all paragraphs per "found item" does work.
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