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Preserve Line Breaks from <textarea> to Microsoft Word with PHP

I have PHP page that has a form where users can enter certain data.  Once the form is submitted, an RTF template file is opened and the user data is merged with the template and saved as a Word document (.doc).  One of the fields that users can enter text in is a <textarea>.  However, I open up the resulting Word document, the line breaks from the <textarea> are lost and all the text ends up one line.  How, if at all, can I preserve the line breaks that the user entered in the <textarea> field in the Word document?
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Zone: Web Development
Question Asked By: rtedi222
Solution Provided By: Isisagate
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Comment by chetweewax
try replacing \n with
.  Word recognizes HTML
 
 
Comment by Isisagate
Glad you found you found your answer.

\par\n  seems a little weird IMO, oh well I didn't write the standards =)
 
 
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