How to handle varchar(4000) field in reporting?

Hello,
I am having a Oracle database, the data in tables of which is being stored from a web application. One of the fields of a table is having varchar(4000) datatype.
The data in this field is text which may contain carriage returns also.
I have to create report of this table. How to display this data properly in a report?
I tried few things:
Accessed the table using SQL Developer and pasted the query output in Excel.
As the text contains carriage returns, it is being spread into one or more rows.
How to handle this? What is the proper way to create report for such data?
Please help.
-Sameer

You the following to remove the carriage returns
SQL> select 'a'||chr(10)||'line2
2
SQL> select 'line 1'||chr(10)||'line 2' from dual ;
'LINE1'||CHR(
line 1
line 2
SQL> select replace('line 1'||chr(10)||'line 2',chr(10),'') from dual ;
REPLACE('LIN
line 1line 2
If this is not the soln , can you paste some sample data

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