Copy and past options for formatting of text and objects

I often use pages or text from other documents (not always from indesign) that have a differnt font or object styles and it wouldbe use for have a copy formatting option that allows you to highlight text or indeed select an object and then past that formatting onto the page imported from another document...... I do use styles but I find that sometimes the styles hold onto some of the text attributes.... 

So a quick copy and past the formatting would be really useful especially when working on files from a magazine I work for who use really differnt formatting to what I use on my own publications.