Reply To: Data Merge question

Yes, it sounds like you’ll likely need to change the format manually, unless there is some clever way to identify the two kinds of paragraphs.

For example, I once worked on a project where we put one special character (like an asterisk) at the beginning of certain lines. Then we did a find/change to apply a paragraph style to any paragraph that had an asterisk at the beginning, and then another to remove the asterisk. This took some set-up in advance, in the spreadsheet, but in general it’s often faster and more efficient to set up the original data like this first.