# Formatting External Text

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-external-text/152526
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 25, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-external-text/152526 "2005-06-25T16:34:53Z")
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### Author: ![daVoodooChile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@daVoodooChile](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/daVoodooChile)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-external-text/152526/1 "2005-06-25T16:34:53Z")

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Greetings all-- I’m using an external text file, and I was wondering if there’s any way to do a ‘soft return’ instead of a full paragraph break. I.E.:

“A line like this  
And another like this”

in my text file end up like

"A line like this

And another like this"

Any suggestions?  
Thanks,  
JT