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Ampersands revert to & on edit

David Duan
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May 15, 2023

I'm able to enter ampersands (&) but when I edit (a card within a board for example) they keep becoming this: 

&

This might seem minor, but we use this abbreviation all over the boards and having to retype every time we edit cards is a time sink.

 

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Brant Schroeder
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May 15, 2023

@David Duan Welcome to the Atlassian community

& is the correct WYSISYG conversion for &.  I think you will continue to deal with this and it would be wiser to convert it to something else like a dash - .

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