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How to Add Formatting to a Multiline Text Field
How to Add Formatting to a Multiline Text Field
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Written by Eszter Takacs
Updated over a week ago
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Rich text fields allow you to add stylings, such as font type and font size, however, they don’t work with Word’s auto-numbering.

You have to use a Multiline Text field in those cases and fortunately, you can still add formatting to the text using simple HTML tags.

Let’s start with the basics of HTML:

  • Tags are used to mark up the start of an HTML element and they are usually enclosed in angle brackets: “< >”

  • Tags must be open with “< >” and closed “</ >”, and you place your text in between those tags.

For instance:

<b>Hello World</b> displays as Hello World

<i>Hello World</i> displays as Hello World

Supported HTML styling elements in Advanced Document Automation:

<b> Bold
<i> Italic
<u> Underlined Text

<pb> Page Break
&nbsp; equal to a Space
<br> equal to a Break
<ul> and <li> Bullet Point List
<ul> starts an unordered list (not using sequential numbers or letters), and <li> for each bullet
point or list item)
<h1> inserts Heading1 Styles formatting
<h2> inserts Heading 2 Style formatting

<h3> inserts Heading 2 Style formatting

<h4> inserts Heading 2 Style formatting

Example of how HTML tags would change the formatting:

Language in your Conditional field:

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Formatting in Word:

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