Unable to put line break into word document generated through 'Populate a Microsoft Word Template' when sending email

[Anonymous]

Hi All, 

Thanks for the assistance! 

I have a flow that runs through a Sharepoint list, adds each item to a string variable, then creates a word document from the variable. The document is then emailed to a recipient. 

Unfortunately, everytime the document is emailed all the line breaks are invisible and the text is on one line.

When opening the file in OneDrive/Office365 online in the browser the line breaks are visible and where they should be, so I know they are there. Something goes wrong in the process of attaching the file to an email. 

For the line breaks I'm using:

uriComponentToString('%0A')  
uriComponentToString('%0D') 

I should note that I'm using the 'plain text' placeholder in the word document template as the rich text option did not work with Power Automate.

Any assistance or clues greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Ok, this has now been resolved. It was the word document content control. 
During various changes, the content control option to 'allow carriage returns' was removed. 

[alrez]

Hi,

Looks like you got your issue resolved here. I just wanted to add in a bit more here about Carriage returns if you want to learn a bit more.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/add-carriage-returns-ms-word-53914.html

Regards,

Alex

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[Shubham_Koolwal]

but still I am facing the issue , after using the  "allow carriage returns"  property the text is not showing in word document

[PaulineShare]

Could you give more details of how you resolved this please. I am using 'Populate a Microsoft Word Template' and need to add Line Breaks in the plain text placeholder as rich text is not supported. I have tried 

uriComponentToString('%0A')
uriComponentToString('%0D')