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I’m attempting to import data collected outside of Qualtrics into a shell survey as embedded data and some of the fields have multiple lines with bullet points. I added the line break with Opt+Return (mac) in the CSV file. I wasn’t optimistic that it would work and, shocker, it didn’t.

So next I’ve tried to include a <br> tag, but that still didn’t seem to work. I attempted to add it prior to import and also within Data & Analysis after import, neither of which worked. Adding it before import kept it converted the <br> tag to “&lt;br&gt;

” and editing and adding it after import in the Data & Analysis tab, it didn’t show as plain text, but also didn’t actually add a line break. 

Since it’s imported data and not captured within a Qualtrics survey, I don’t believe I can actually code anything, but I’m trying to display this data on a dashboard and it’s not ideal to have lines running together.

Included <br> in file before import
Included <br> in Data & Analysis after import
Result of including <br> in Data & Analysis after import

hi @courtrc,  Have the same issue.   Did you ever find a work around?


@behravesh I did not. 🙁 It was an edge case for me, so I just had to deal with it. 


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