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Can you Loop & Merge long, formatted blocks of text?

  • January 16, 2021
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Hi all. I need to present my participants with a large number of long blocks of formatted text to read. They will answer a specific set of questions after reading each text, so I would like to use Loop & Merge instead of creating distinct blocks for each text. Is there a way to feed rich text into Loop & Merge? Perhaps through a spreadsheet of stimuli?

Best answer by TomG

You can add text with html tags to your loop and merge fields. You can create the fields in Excel and copy/paste them into the loop and merge setup all at once. Go to row 1, field 1 and paste.

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  • January 16, 2021

You can add text with html tags to your loop and merge fields. You can create the fields in Excel and copy/paste them into the loop and merge setup all at once. Go to row 1, field 1 and paste.


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  • January 17, 2021

Thanks very much for the information. Seems to work great. You cannot have any returns within the loop & merge field, correct? (Or at least I don't seem to be able to copy/paste them.


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  • January 17, 2021

Correct, but you don't need any as they don't provide any html functionality. Use


for line breaks.