Using the send email script step it seems you can only get one carriage return at a time, regardless of how many ¶'s you put. Is there a way round this?

Using Apple Mail, I can get two carriage returns, e.g.

"Hey " & Proper ( $name ) & ",¶¶"

You do have to use the paragraph symbols, it won't work just to have carriage returns in your text. So you'd have to parse out your paragraphs from your text field and re-assemble them in your script.

This doesn't work for me using WinXP, MS Outlook and FMP v7. I can only seem to get a maximum of 1 line return.

Not tested, but as a workaround perhaps you could use:

Substitute("¶¶" ; "¶ ¶") // note the space

Wow, that was a stupid mistake on my part. Sorry, for some reason my brain froze on that one. Using the calc - "Hey " & Proper ( $name ) & ",¶¶" & "I think my brain froze." - I somehow expected to see:

Line1 = Hey Mr. So-n-so,

Line2 = Return

Line3 = Return

Line4 = I think my brain froze.

But of course 3 consecutive ¶'s would be required for that to happen (which works for me). I really must need the vacation I'm about to take.

Back to the OP's question.... What email client and version are you using?