Need to preserve text formatting of job description column in excel report

Summary

Report is pulling job description as plain text. Line breaks and formatting are lost. Admin report of message templates preserves formatting. Why not job descriptions?

Content

I am pulling job description and qualifications into a report and it is displaying as plain text - all line breaks and other formatting is gone. When I run a report of message templates, it pulls the html so at least I can preserve the formatting. I want to do the same thing with the job description fields from requisitions. Does anybody know how to do this? I changed the data format of the column properties from plain text to HTML but it does not change the output. Picture below. If there was a way to at least preserve the line