Hi Dovernh and welcome to our forum!
I assume you are using the InfoPath Designer - i.e. you have chosen to import a form into InfoPath and the title of the window starts with "(Design)". If that is the case, you can import a Word document into the form. If there is a problem, it should be displayed as an error or a message in the taskpane, but if not, please click on Design Checker and verify that it has nothing. If so, it may be an incompatibility of the version of Word doc that you have, or with InfoPath's support of the import functionality. Sorry if this isn't more helpful! Good luck.
Patrick Halstead
Project Manager at Qdabra