Place text from Word 2004 into ID CS3

I was using Pagemaker 7 for a newsletter for the past few years and was placing Word documents with tags for various text styles. These imported and were set in the tagged styles and no changes in text format were necessary. I have now not been able to place the files into PM7 as it says there are no filters found for the operation. I assume this is from updating the Word 2004. I have moved the newsletter template to IDI have tried to do the same thing into a newsletter template in ID CS3 but it doesn't seem to work. I don't know if the tags are correct, if there is a problem in my selection or if it can't be done in ID which for all the bells and whistles is a step backwards from PM7. Could someone please help with this? Thank you

Just figured a bit out that seems to work. You are right about the plain text. I saved the file in "Text Edit" as .txt. You are also right in that the first line needs to describe the format. That works with<ASCII-MAC>. Using this, I placed the document into ID just as it was exported. Also there needs to be a <ParaStyle:Normal> in the blank lines between paragraphs to hold the proper space otherwise that space is determined by the size of the text preceeding the space. Now if we can make it work with Word saved as .txt then things will be a great deal simpler.
<ASCII-MAC>
<ParaStyle:Headline>If you haven’t been in the museum lately, you should come in and see our Museum Gallery.
<ParaStyle:Normal>
<ParaStyle:Subhead 1>We now have on exhibit a number of Portraits from our collection.
<ParaStyle:Normal>
<ParaStyle:Subhead 2>Some we can identify but there are more that we can’t.
<ParaStyle:Normal>
<ParaStyle:Personal>Perhaps you would recognize someone in the portrait. We would love to have the information. We have many new and exciting changes in the museum. There is new paint everywhere. Still a lot to do but much has been done. It is so much brighter and cleaner appearing.
<ParaStyle:Normal>
<ParaStyle:Caption>I like working in the museum to help with the setup of new exhibits. We have one now on Main Street that contains a number of hats and some history of hats. I love doing the research for the exhibits and finding much information that I didn’t know before. I enjoy helping visitors with their research also. It is very rewarding to be able too help people find things from our files. We have a lot of history in the museum.
<ParaStyle:Normal>
<ParaStyle:Caption>We have many artifacts and the collection is constantly growing. We have a large collection of 45 records, 78 records, old wire recordings and wax music rolls. There is a large collection of clothes and many hats, both men’s and women’s, from many time periods.
<ParaStyle:Normal>
<ParaStyle:NSText>I enjoy working with the Community Service people. They have been so much help. We could not have made the progress that we have without them. Come and see for yourself and enjoy the experience that I have enjoyed. See ya there!
<ParaStyle:Normal>
<ParaStyle:Signature>Gwen Winter
Museum Assistant
This is a sample of the tags that worked saved in a .txt file

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