Line breaks and paragraphs in Microsoft Word Template

How To
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Hello there, I want to add text paragraphs with line breaks in the microsoft word template module.

In the help doc for word templates it says: “The Microsoft Word Templates app accepts only single-line plain text for replacement values. When adding line breaks, they will be viewed as spaces and won’t affect the formatting of the text.” (https://www.make.com/en/help/app/microsoft-word-templates)

Is there any workaround or way to still get in text paragraphs with line breaks? I desperately need this function. Thank you!

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Hiya @Malte; given the documentation says simple text only, and line breaks are converted, there’s no getting what you want cleanly.

One idea is to pass newline characters like /n as {NEWLINE} and then run a script on the template to replace {NEWLINE} with the desired line break.

However, that involves further scripting within the Microsoft ecosystem, similar to Google AppScript.

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Hello @Malte and welcome to the Make Community!

Is there any possible way to add more tags and separate them by spaces in the template?

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Hi Donald, sadly there is no other option as we get the full text with paragraphs from a software with no option of splitting the text