Losing Formatting when Moving Pages Between Documents

But, you can load the paragraph styles from the old one into the new one via the Paragraph Styles panel menu. You can pick and choose which ones you want to import—but this does override the definitions of the paragraph tags in the new file, so work on a copy until you understand the ramifications. (This works for character styles, object styles—where the text wrap settings may be stored— along with table and cell styles.)

~Barb

Any matching master page names and styles will be overridden and assigned using the definitions in the incoming document.