# Pasting rich text causes new paragraphs for every line break

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/pasting-rich-text-causes-new-paragraphs-for-every-line-break/35832>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [January 26, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pasting-rich-text-causes-new-paragraphs-for-every-line-break/35832 "2023-01-26T21:41:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![oqixdhwiuh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b487fb/32.png) [@oqixdhwiuh](https://forum.ghost.org/u/oqixdhwiuh)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pasting-rich-text-causes-new-paragraphs-for-every-line-break/35832/1 "2023-01-26T21:41:19Z")

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I’m trying to copy some exiting rtf files onto Ghost. Simply copy/pasting of:

```auto
Test
Test
Test

```

results in:

```auto
<p data-koenig-dnd-droppable="true"><strong>Test</strong></p>
<p data-koenig-dnd-droppable="true"><strong>Test</strong></p>
<p data-koenig-dnd-droppable="true"><strong>Test</strong></p>

```

However, if I first convert the source to plaintext, then paste into Ghost, I get the much more reasonable:

```auto
<p data-koenig-dnd-droppable="true">
  Test
  <span class="-mobiledoc-kit__atom">‌<span contenteditable="false"><br></span>‌</span>
  Test
  <span class="-mobiledoc-kit__atom">‌<span contenteditable="false"><br></span>‌</span>
  Test
</p>

```

The problem is that I have other formatting (bold, italics) that needs to be preserved, so I can’t simply convert everything into plaintext before posting to Ghost. How can I get line breaks from rtf documents to behave?