diff --git a/src/components/forms/custom-form-builder.tsx b/src/components/forms/custom-form-builder.tsx
index e8575d3..0f8e38f 100644
--- a/src/components/forms/custom-form-builder.tsx
+++ b/src/components/forms/custom-form-builder.tsx
@@ -359,12 +359,14 @@ export function CustomFormBuilder() {
     editor.chain().focus().updateAttributes("paragraph", { caption: !cur }).run();
   };
 
-  // Linearized document segments for export. Tables now carry per-cell border data.
-  type TableCellSeg = { text: string; borders: CellBorders; isHeader: boolean };
+  // Linearized document segments for export. Inline runs preserve bold/italic/underline.
+  // Newlines inside `text` (from <br> or block splits inside cells) are honored on render.
+  type InlineRun = { text: string; bold?: boolean; italic?: boolean; underline?: boolean };
+  type TableCellSeg = { runs: InlineRun[]; borders: CellBorders; isHeader: boolean };
   type Segment =
     | {
         kind: "text";
-        text: string;
+        runs: InlineRun[];
         align: "left" | "center" | "right" | "justify";
         indent: number;
         caption?: boolean;
@@ -372,6 +374,73 @@ export function CustomFormBuilder() {
       }
     | { kind: "table"; rows: TableCellSeg[][] };
 
+  // Walk a DOM subtree, emitting inline runs with bold/italic/underline marks.
+  // <br> becomes a newline character within the current run stream.
+  const collectRuns = (
+    node: Node,
+    marks: { bold?: boolean; italic?: boolean; underline?: boolean } = {},
+  ): InlineRun[] => {
+    if (node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
+      const t = node.textContent ?? "";
+      if (!t) return [];
+      return [{ text: t, ...marks }];
+    }
+    if (node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE) return [];
+    const el = node as HTMLElement;
+    const tag = el.tagName.toLowerCase();
+    if (tag === "br") return [{ text: "\n", ...marks }];
+    const next = { ...marks };
+    if (tag === "strong" || tag === "b") next.bold = true;
+    if (tag === "em" || tag === "i") next.italic = true;
+    if (tag === "u") next.underline = true;
+    // Honor inline style overrides too
+    const fw = el.style.fontWeight;
+    if (fw && (fw === "bold" || parseInt(fw, 10) >= 600)) next.bold = true;
+    if (el.style.fontStyle === "italic") next.italic = true;
+    const td = el.style.textDecoration || el.style.textDecorationLine;
+    if (td && td.includes("underline")) next.underline = true;
+    const out: InlineRun[] = [];
+    el.childNodes.forEach((child) => out.push(...collectRuns(child, next)));
+    return out;
+  };
+
+  // Merge adjacent runs with identical marks for cleaner output.
+  const mergeRuns = (runs: InlineRun[]): InlineRun[] => {
+    const out: InlineRun[] = [];
+    for (const r of runs) {
+      if (!r.text) continue;
+      const last = out[out.length - 1];
+      if (
+        last &&
+        !!last.bold === !!r.bold &&
+        !!last.italic === !!r.italic &&
+        !!last.underline === !!r.underline
+      ) {
+        last.text += r.text;
+      } else {
+        out.push({ ...r });
+      }
+    }
+    return out;
+  };
+
+  const collectCellRuns = (cell: HTMLElement): InlineRun[] => {
+    // Cells may contain multiple <p> blocks — join them with a newline.
+    const blocks = Array.from(cell.children).filter((c) =>
+      ["p", "h1", "h2", "h3", "div", "li"].includes((c as HTMLElement).tagName.toLowerCase()),
+    ) as HTMLElement[];
+    let runs: InlineRun[] = [];
+    if (blocks.length === 0) {
+      runs = collectRuns(cell);
+    } else {
+      blocks.forEach((b, i) => {
+        if (i > 0) runs.push({ text: "\n" });
+        runs.push(...collectRuns(b));
+      });
+    }
+    return mergeRuns(runs);
+  };
+
   const getRenderedSegments = (): Segment[] => {
     if (!editor) return [];
     const html = editor.getHTML();
@@ -379,8 +448,6 @@ export function CustomFormBuilder() {
     tmp.innerHTML = html;
     const out: Segment[] = [];
 
-    const cellText = (cell: HTMLElement) => (cell.textContent ?? "").replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
-
     const pushBlock = (el: HTMLElement) => {
       const tag = el.tagName.toLowerCase();
       if (tag === "table") {
@@ -389,7 +456,7 @@ export function CustomFormBuilder() {
           const cells = Array.from(tr.children) as HTMLElement[];
           rows.push(
             cells.map((c) => ({
-              text: cellText(c),
+              runs: collectCellRuns(c),
               borders: parseBordersFromAttr(c.getAttribute("data-borders") ?? "trbl"),
               isHeader: c.tagName.toLowerCase() === "th",
             })),
@@ -405,7 +472,7 @@ export function CustomFormBuilder() {
         const heading = tag === "h1" ? 1 : tag === "h2" ? 2 : tag === "h3" ? 3 : 0;
         out.push({
           kind: "text",
-          text: el.textContent || "",
+          runs: mergeRuns(collectRuns(el)),
           align,
           indent: indentPx,
           caption,