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I am working on a data merge project in Indesign. I have a basic letter that will have about 8 different versions. They only way the letter will differ is by one paragraph. Though I am merging contact information from excel. I am wondering if there is another way to tell Indesign what letters should get what paragraph. I am trying to avoid going through thousands of fields in Excel, to input the paragraph content for merging. Please help!

Here you go.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhxgyxsqpp8gcxq/8-variable-paragraphs.zip?dl=0
The Excel file has a couple notes in it. The ID file is CS6...if you need a prior version let me know.
Resist the urge to preview the file, it can break ID's merging. There are two different merge files. You can swap one for the other as the headers are the same. Any questions, I'll be poking around the internet for a bit longer tonight, else I'll check into the forum in the morning.
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