You previously said the document had been created in a different word process, which you speculated might have been Word 2003. I very much doubt Word 2003 was involved, since if you apply the small-caps attribute to a document in that version, the attribute and formatting are faithfully carried over when the document is opened in Word 2010, for example. Of course, if someone had round-tripped the document through, say a conversion to PDF then copied the text back to Word, the small-caps attribute would have been lost and you'd end up with normal caps in a smaller point size. You'd also get the same result if the document had been produced in WordPad, for example, since WordPad doesn't support small-caps and one would have to simulate them by using caps in a smaller point size.
As for your concern about losing a small-caps attribute when copying between documents, that presupposes the source actually has that attribute AND that your paste options are not set to preserve the source formatting. But, in that case, what you'd then be liable to end up with is not caps in a smaller font but no caps (i.e. normal upper/lower-case text) - which is what you see when you copy content with small-caps into WordPad.
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This has to go to a publisher, and they want a no frills document, nothing with styles (which I invariably find too complicated to go into anyway). Just plain text, at most a TAB here and there, italics and bold, is okay. And smallcaps.
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None of those attributes is possible in a plain text file. A plain text file is just that - text with no formatting of any kind. The most you'll end up with is upper/lower-case text and tabs (tabs being characters in their own right). You'll have no indents, bold, italics, underlines, differences in font size or small caps.