Text flowed from Microsoft Word into an InDesign doc disappears

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Grundoon+Groundhog  wrote Text flowed from Microsoft Word into an InDesign document keeps disappearing, leaving part of the column blank. If I type in more text, or copy and paste it, it disappears.

Yet another reason this might happen is if you have text wrap on as a default and flow text into columns and the large text wrap pushes the text out of the frame.

If this happens again, please read through these ideas and see which one applies. If you don't figure it out, take a screen shot. There are several things that could cause it, as you can see. Most likely only one of them actually did.

Glad it's working now!

Supporting Jane's answer, if break characters are coming in with the Word document, here are the characters to look for and remove.

You also mentioned that this can happen when you assign a heading tag: in addition to break characters, InDesign can add breaks and keep settings to paragraph tags so that could also be playing a role. My bet is on Jane's answer though. If you can't figure it out, post a screen shot with Type > Show Hidden Characters on.

Look in the Story Editor (Edit menu). Is your text showing there?

Turn on Hidden Characters from the Type menu. If there are break characters (frame break, column break, page break), then delete them.

Do your frames show overset text? You will also see this in the Story Editor.

Don't use Copy and Paste, Place the Word document into InDesign (press Shift before Placing to reflow the text over more than one page)

Use the facility of the Microsoft Word Import Options dialogue box (see screen shot below), select No Breaks in the Manual Page Breaks drop-down menu. Select Preserve Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables.

Set up InDesign Paragraph styles for the InDesign headings, sub headings and text etc, but before Placing the Word document ensure you have No Paragraph Style selected in Paragraph Styles and None in Character Styles in your InDesign document (you can subsequently replace the Word Styles with the InDesign styles).

Ensure you have a default type size selected of around 12pt before Placing.

Alternatively, you can select Remove Styles and Formatting but Preserve Local Overrides and format the Styles by hand.