Being in a similar situation years ago, I found the trick of copying from the Word doc and pasting into my FM docs as plain text, then applying tags to the content. It produced a cleaner set of tags/styles in the content. To force the paste (Ctl-V) to always paste as plain text, edit your copy of the maker.ini file (it's hiding in your C:\users\{user_name}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FRameMaker\{version}\ folder) and change the: [Preferences] ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF, DIB, BMP, UNICODE TEXT
to have TEXT listed at the start of that string.
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