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Export to Word with carriage or paragraph returns?

3/26/2010 6:31:56 PM
PHPRunner General questions
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FunkDaddy author

Sergey/Jane,
When I export to Word the fields where I have a lot of text, with multiple lines in the field, won’t display multiple lines in word. For example when I write this:
Dear Swamy,
We are writing to inform you that Mogglie Swamy has been selected to participate in national academic competition.
Your child has been assigned to, grade: 3

And will be supervised by staff teacher:
If you have any questions or concerns please contact our school administration.
Thank you for blah, blah, blah
Sicerely,
Dick Cheney

PTA Vice President

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It shows up as this in Word:
How can I make sure the paragraphs line returns show up in the exported Word document properly?

My data is being stored in MySQL as a mediumtext type field and the fields display correctly (with paragraphs) in all the web forms, etc. Just seems like a limitation in the WORD export. Also, does anyone know of a add-on software package to make the whole exporting feature more flexible? I don’t care whether its paid or free, I just want an easy way to control the exporting options.

Thanks,

J
Jane 4/2/2010

Hi,
please make sure this field is set up as HTMLom the "View as" settings dialog and then format it with HTML tags (
for example).