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Hello,

I have Project Scope column in sharepoint list which is Rich Text Column Type.

I am using HTML to Text conversion Connector in power automate and passing the output to populate a word connector. Issue is when the word document is created the pointer present in the Project Scope are becoming as a paragraph.

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Output of Populate a word template after using HTML to Text Conversion Action

Please guide what should be the other approach.

Thanks,

Husain

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Tomac 4,053 Moderator on at

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Hi @MS-21061011-0

To do this, you'll need to add a couple extra steps to your process.

Initialize a string variable, named strNewline, and in that variable's Value simply press the Enter key to set it to a line break

In your Word Template, open the Content Control you're working with and ensure "Allow Carriage Returns" is checked

Paste the following expression into your Populate A Word Template action for the specific content control you're trying to fill:

replace(body('Convert_HTML_to_text'),'*',concat(variables('strNewline'),'• '))

Run your flow and verify the output

While this won't format it as a list in Word, it will look like one, which I believe is the goal here.

If this comment resolves the issue you're having, please remember to mark it as the answer.

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David_MA 14,393 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Since the Word template action only allows plain text fields, I don't think you'll be able to achieve what you want easily. While you could use an expression such as the one below to replace the asterisks with a line break and then the asterisk, when it gets populated in the Word template the line breaks get removed.

replace(variables('HTML to Text'), '*', concat(decodeUriComponent('%0D%0A'), '* '))

You can see it work in the populate a Word template action:

But when you open the Word document, the paragraph returns are removed again:

Depending on your needs, you could format the entire document as HTML and then use the Convert HTML to Word action to create you Microsoft Word file.

I have not used this because it has licensing costs, but there are third-party actions that can populate rich text into Word such as How to insert HTML and rich text into a Word Document with Power Automate — Plumsail Documents Documentation.

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David_MA 14,393 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Thank you, Tomac for pointing out enabling the carriage returns in the field in the template. I did that, and with the method I suggested below, the text comes through like this:

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