Bug - html tags added when changing column format to enhanced rich text and back.

[Marina_Bloom]

Hi everyone,

I am having an issue where one day the list I created had html tags added to a description field when I tried changing column format to enhanced rich text and back.

So, what I did:

1) edited description field which was initially multiple line text 

to

- enhanced rich format - ON.

2) The description now looks like this:

3) switching the toggle enhanced rich format back does nothing (it doesn't remove the html tags)

4) I have tried going to version history and it doesn't even have that as a version. Restoring it to previous version also doesn't remove that html noise.

My list is over 1500 items, and I really want to use it without all that html rubbish. 

Any ideas of how to fix this?

[#2]

You can use power automate to replace the values on each item but the modified date/user will change. MS needs to fix this.

[#3]

@Marina_Bloom

Do you have any JSON column formatting applied for your multiple lines of text column? If yes, please try removing it once.

If you this this is a bug from Microsoft, I will suggest you to raise a support ticket with Microsoft directly and report this behaviour: Get M365 support - online support 

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