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Brian --

Sorry, but I'm not quite understanding what you are looking for. A couple of questions:

1) you say your current method is constricting, but how do you want do be unconstricted? [grin]

2) my situation is not totally congruous to yours, but I set up my data in an excel file, then I'll apply text formatting to the various parts: for instance, the head will be bold, the main body will be regular, & the closer will be italic. This is easy in Excel, you can select a whole column and apply styling, or use data filtering. When I then import to InDy, those text formats are translated to named character styles by a script. You can use different fonts, type styles, & type sizes. I find this is easier than adding a tag.

3) You can "import" the whole file, then "place" it paragraph by paragraph, w/o creating a new file each time. (I use quotes because that's not exactly how you do it, scripting is not totally analogous to the User Interface.)

4) what platform & OS?

A bit rambly, hope it helps a little.