Special characters or Glyphs from MicroSoft Word

I am having difficulties with special characters imported or even copied and pasted form Word. THe Word document contains special charaters or Glyphs that will not transpose into InDesign.
I can copy them into TextEdit and the glyuphs carry over, but not in InDesign.
The characters in question are the suits of playing cards: the heart, spade, club and diamond.
The font, Times New Roman, has the characters in it's entire set as shown in FontBook but will not, for whatever reason, show up in inDesign.
Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for the reply.
I'm running CS2 and Word 2004 for Mac.
using Times New Roman in both.
Tried saving the Word doc as rtf then bring it into ID but no luck.
Mac has a utility called special characters - all the symbols show up there in the selected font - but not in ID.
I could do s search and replace and use a different font but that would upset the paragraph styles by having to introduce character styles which would be a major PIA. lol

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