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Insert line break in a shape's Custom Data Field on MacOS

  • October 20, 2025
  • 6 replies
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I have Lucidchart shapes with Custom Data. When editing a field’s data I cannot insert a line break using the standard shortcut of Command+Enter. I can copy/paste a line break character in from outside the app.

How can I insert a line break into shape Custom Data without copying and pasting on MacOS?

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TimW
Lucid Legend Level 3
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  • Lucid Legend Level 3
  • October 21, 2025

Hi Derek.  Does shift + enter work for you?

 

 


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  • Author
  • October 21, 2025

Unfortunately it does not. Every combination of modifier keys with enter I’ve tried are just treated as a submission of data in the field.


Leianne C
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  • Lucid support team
  • October 24, 2025

Hi ​@Derek H, thank you for posting in the community! I’d love to take a closer look at what you’re experiencing. If possible, would you mind sharing a screenshot of where you’re trying to add a line break to? Please feel free to censor out any important information. Thanks!


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  • Author
  • October 24, 2025

Hi ​@Leianne C . Sure, attached are a couple images depicting what we are using (custom shape data, and variable references like ‘{{=this."Prompt Verbiage"}}’ in the text element of the shape to display that data). The only way to get the line breaks in the “Prompt Verbiage” of the second image is to copy/paste them in from another source. I can’t use standard keyboard hotkeys to add one directly in the field.

 


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  • Author
  • October 24, 2025

Second image with the copy/pasted line breaks.

 


Leianne C
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  • Lucid support team
  • November 7, 2025

Hi ​@Derek H! Thank you for your patience and apologies for the delay. Unfortunately, this isn’t currently supported in Lucid, but we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products.

If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within this thread. I’ve also converted this post to an idea so that it’s visible to others within the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, they can upvote it and add details of their own. Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and ideas in the community Please let us know if you have any questions!