Pasting text to the Notes field overwrites notes in following rows in Microsoft Project

CAUSE

This behavior occurs if the text of the note that you paste in your project contains a carriage return. If the text contains a carriage return, the text is pasted to multiple rows on your table. When you paste this text to the Notes field for a task, the text that follows each carriage return is entered in the Notes field in the following row. If the following row does not contain a task, a new task is entered with the default task information (without a task name). If the following row contains a task that already has text in the Notes field, the text of the notes field that you pasted overwrites the existing information in the Notes field.

This behavior is by design. When you paste text to a field in a table, if the text contains a carriage return character, the information that precedes the carriage return is pasted to the destination cell, while the text that follows the carriage return is pasted to the following row. Note that this behavior also occurs when you paste text to the Task Name field.

This problem can occur when you paste text that you copied from the Notes box for a task (which can contain carriage return characters), or if you paste text that you copied from a word processing document, such as a Microsoft Word document.