https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/arcpro-layer-metadata-wont-hold-carriage-return/m-p/1686776#M102088 <P>I'm trying to save time and update our layers metadata for our datasets by using an excel file that has all the metadata content and using a python tool to import it from excel to each featureclass.</P><P>The process works well but each excel cell has a different sub section of text and when it imports it in it joins all the cells text together into one long paragraph with just white spaces were the new line should start.</P><P>I have tried using &lt;br&gt; for line breaks but the xml import doesn't support that.</P><P>Any ideas from anyone that has had similar issues</P> Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:21:45 GMT MarkB_NZ 2026-02-25T22:21:45Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/arcpro-layer-metadata-wont-hold-carriage-return/m-p/1686776#M102088 <P>I'm trying to save time and update our layers metadata for our datasets by using an excel file that has all the metadata content and using a python tool to import it from excel to each featureclass.</P><P>The process works well but each excel cell has a different sub section of text and when it imports it in it joins all the cells text together into one long paragraph with just white spaces were the new line should start.</P><P>I have tried using &lt;br&gt; for line breaks but the xml import doesn't support that.</P><P>Any ideas from anyone that has had similar issues</P> Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:21:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/arcpro-layer-metadata-wont-hold-carriage-return/m-p/1686776#M102088 MarkB_NZ 2026-02-25T22:21:45Z