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Formatting options for text output from formula... e.g. Translate ALT+Enter into " \n " for line breaks, bold or color text options

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itoldusoandso
10 - Mercury
10 - Mercury

One of the most basic and best things I learned about Airtable is how to use " \n " to get the line breaks in a formula result. That makes it easy to format text in columns without need use gimmicks. Excel uses ALT+Enter and this one doesnโ€™t work in AirTable. I suggest Airtable takes the input โ€œALT+Enterโ€ on the keyboard and translates it into " \n ". That way more users benefit who may otherwise not know there is such a thing in Airtable.

If I may take this a step further, perhaps adding formatting options would be neat. For example by adding /b for bold text in formula output. I know this is stretching airtable far beyond what it is expected to do, but here are some marketing folks using Airtable so it may be useful.

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Add a line break using \n

When working with formulas - especially when combining several fields of information - it can often be helpful to program in line breaks and other formatting features to better display the result o...

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mpstaton
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

Yeah, I severely need to style the output of formula.

Catherine_Alexa
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

This would be INCREDIBLE. 

Paul_Matsushima
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Is this possible yet? Anyone have a solution to this yet? I sorely need the text that gets generated from a formula to have the ability to have bolds/italics/underlines/etc.