Enterprise Glossary - Paragraph Spacing Issue

Anitha Ganesan 0 Reputation points
2026-09-18T14:22:23.38+00:00

Hi Microsoft Support,

We’re looking for some guidance regarding paragraph formatting when bulk importing Enterprise Glossary terms into Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog using CSV.

We have the standard Description field and a Rich Text custom attribute called Business Context, where some values contain multiple paragraphs. When these are imported through CSV, the paragraph spacing/line breaks are not retained, and the content appears as a single paragraph in Purview.

During testing, we found that adding <br> tags between paragraphs retains the spacing correctly. We also tested CSV UTF-8, which preserves special characters, but normal paragraph breaks are still lost unless <br> tags are used.

We understand that for the Classic Glossary, Microsoft documentation provides guidance on using markup tags for rich-text content. However, we couldn’t find equivalent guidance for the Enterprise Glossary in Unified Catalog.

Could you please confirm:

  • Is using <br> or other HTML/markup tags the supported approach for retaining paragraph formatting in the Description field and Rich Text custom attributes during Enterprise Glossary CSV imports?
  • If not, what is the recommended method for preserving paragraph breaks?
  • Is the loss of normal paragraph breaks during CSV import expected behaviour or a known limitation in Unified Catalog?

Thank you for your assistance.

Microsoft Security | Microsoft Purview
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