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> I also tried to change the paragraph style, but to no avail...

This sounds like you really cannot place the cursor within the text
of the text frame. Can you place the cursor and actually edit the
text? If yes, you certainly should be able to change the paragraph
tag, as well as selecting text and making it conditional. If no,
you could have overlapping frames or objects, so that you cannot
"reach" the text frame using the pointer/cursor. If that's the case,
try to stay with the original text frames from the corresponding
Master pages; don't add new text frames on your own, or place
graphics directly on the page background. Try reapplying your Master
pages through Format>Page Layout>Master Page Usage.

A last thought: if the conditional tags have no character style
defined, or you have Show Condition Indicators turned off, then
appyling conditions won't have any visual effect on the text.
This could be interpreted as the condition tag didn't "take".


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