Thanks, I tried using carriage return to do a blank line with no success, then went to a more complex solution. A single space bar then carriage return does the task more neatly, cheers.
Below is a half-half test of (' ', carriage return) and ({COLOR=#ffffff}.{/COLOR}, cr), where the '{' and '}' are substituted with its squared equivalents. On Preview it works, and for the Post product: