Formatting in Announcements

Question

Hello All,

Long-time Brightspace user.  I’ve been meaning to ask this questions for a long time.  Finally got around to doing so.

I am an instructor and like to create my announcements in Word, then copy/paste into Brightspace.

On many occasions, the formatting for my document appears fine in Word, and also when I paste into Brightspace (using “Keep Formatting” option) in the editor, it also looks fine.  But when I go ahead and publish, things don’t go according to plan.

Specifically, I am referring to Carriage Returns (new lines) that, obviously, work in Word, (and inside the Brisghtspace Text Editor), but then that extra line that I add {CR}, does not display when published.

My screenshot attached is an example.

Try as I might to add a Carriage Return to each of these lines, they still do not take when I hit the “Publish” button.

I am open to using whatever TextEditor I need to.  I just need to know which one.

Please advise.

Thanks,

-- C

C.R.306 · Answer

It works!!  Thanks.  It even works in Word.  I took the original announcement and copied from Brightspace into Word.  Then I did the Shift+Enter in Word, and then pasted back into Brightspace.  And voilaaa!

Thanks Heather!

-- C

Heather.W.350 · Answer

You can force a return by using Shift + Enter, this is the quickest way in my opinion! See the result: The difference in the source is
tags for Shift + Enter instead of

tags for just Enter. Does that help?