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Provide the ability to use rich text on the card description and comments fields.

It'd be useful to be able to use rich text in a cards - formatting, bullet points, etc.

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  • Roger Lysnes commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a most wanted feature. Both for tasks created manually in Planner, but also for tasks being synched from Message Center in Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

    When I sync messages from Message Center to Planner, I often have to open them in Message Center to be able to read them properly. That is time consuming and unnecessary.

    I'm surprised to see that this idea "only" have about 480 votes. Hope this will be fixed soon.

  • Christophe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Rich text formating and code integration (like with ascii doc or mark down protocols) will help

  • Baroni Parson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add rich text formatting capabilities as well as the ability to @ mention someone AND to reference another task by using # or something like that.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree! Instead, we need to create Word docs and add them as attachments to keep the formatting we need. It's a multi-step process that could be greatly simplified with rich text.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE can you add this as soon as possible Microsoft? It's super important for us and would make us using Planner much more likely. Just the ability to underline, bold, bullet point etc... Would be a massive improvement.

  • CS commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed. I'm wishing this feature will enable on Planner soon. The comment should work as Whatsapp, the ability to enable members to comment and attach the picture to illustrate the task.

  • Katie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I just stumbled onto Planner and was so excited at first! I thought I'd be able to move all our Trello boards over to it and have everything in place. However, once I started to create my first task, I realized how limiting the functionality of it is. And it seems that Microsoft doesn't even respond to the different questions I've seen here. Very disappointing!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The absence of rich text (and a few other lacking functionalities) is truly a frustration.

    Recently became a team leader and our company briefly started using office 365. Im trying to move from (my private Trello) to Planner for the company's ease, but the process is beyond frustrating at the moment.

    Microsoft, please please give us better functionality. Rich text, more than one checklist and the ability to edit comments is an absolute minimum in this day and age.

    Free alternatives are already offering this.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    yes please! we use it often to copy/paste email content, which is html. It looks unreadable without rich text!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This idea is from 2016 - @Microsoft: Which release of Planner will include capabilities around formatting?

  • justAnotherOne commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    HELLOO Microsoft? Wakey Wakey What will it take to make you understand this is simply a necessary functionality?

  • Gustavo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The difference in support given to MS Teams and Planner is notorious. I cannot understand why, as the products are complementary and increasingly important now.
    Rich text in the comments and task description encourage the team to work within the planner, while the opposite is also true: the absence of this simple functionality discourages the use of the tool and motivates people to seek alternative solutions with more pleasant design and a best UX design.

  • Glen Martin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Come on, Microsoft - it's 2020! And there is not even support for URLs?
    4 1/2 years this has been on the pile - 50 comments and 376 votes. What does it take to get this done?

  • Jason Baker commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any updates on the WYSIWYG or Rich content editor? I just stumbled into Planner and love everything I am seeing. Except the lack of WYSIWYG or Rich Text editor for descriptions, notes, and comments. Being able to bold or add italics, lists, etc... would be amazing!

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