Thanks, Jennifer, that was exactly what I was looking for. Works great!
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From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 2:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: memo fields and paragraphs
At 02:27 PM 7/3/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to preserve the paragraphs (carriage returns)
>in text in a memo field? When I copy text from something like a
>Word document and paste it into a memo field, it seems to smash
>all the lines together, as though the paragraphs weren't there at
>all. Looking at the data in the Access database, the paragraphs
>are still there, but when I read the field in CF, they're gone.
>
>Is this a memo field thing, or a CF thing?
It's a browser output thing. Browsers recognize all white space as a single
white space. What you need to do is make sure that the users skips a line
between paragraphs (so there is one completely blank line between each)
then wrap the output in #paragraphformat(put your variable name here)#
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