Automatic word wrapping in context help window?

Hello together
I don't get the way how labview does the automatic word wrapping in the context help window. Does somebody know that?
regards
Woodi

I see my problem. Everytime I do just a single carriage return, or a return, the automatic line wrapping doesn't work. But it works fine, if I do two carriage returns.
This is actually not exactly what I want, but at least the user doesn't have to scroll.
Woodi

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