Word pdf and InDesign

I have a cllegue who sends me pdfs created in Word 2011. When I cut and paste the copy into InDesign eac word comes up as an item and list each with a para return. When running a test on the doc it tells me it has no tags but will still not add them when requested.
Anyone else had a similar problem ?

If you have Acrobat, have you tried saving the PDF file as a text file so you can copy and paste the text from notepad (or BBEdit on Mac)?

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