Square boxes in Notepad from TextEdit file

When I put carriage returns in a TextEdit .txt file, they show up as square boxes in one long line in Notepad on a PC.
How do I solve this without needing to worry about how it will display in Notepad?

That's been a problem with straight text files between the Mac OS and Windows since forever. One uses a line feed character to start a new paragraph, and the other uses a carriage return. I don't remember which OS does what.
The Mac has no problem with this difference and will display a Notepad (or any other straight text document) from Windows as you would expect it to look. But Windows never interprets the way a Mac handles text file paragraph breaks correctly.

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I suspect there is a soft return in the excel database somewhere that can't be seen. Take the csv/txt file into notepad and look for a line that starts oddly compared to the others.
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