Hard returns within an Excel cell - merged to Word doc

[Kozmo]

Greetings; I have an excel file I'm mail-merging into a Word doc. All in
Office 2000.

The imported data is text and includes line breaks. I am able to put the
line breaks in with <alt-return>. They appear fine in the spreadsheet. When
I merge them into the Word doc that line break is not carried over.

Is there a way to put the line break in the Excel data that will persist
when it's merged into the doc?

thanks; Kozmo

 

[Kozmo]

I found a crude way of doing it. After the alt-ret, add a space in the next
line and then another alt-return. It separates the lines into paragraphs
with a space between.