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Formatting Description Text in Custom Form - SharePoint Designer 2010

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I had been searching extensively trying to find a solution for formatting Description text in my custom form.  I found this in several places:

<xsl:value-of select="@Description" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

Which you would edit in the tag of the table.  Though, that still wasn't solving the problem for me.  Finally, not sure what triggered this as being the problem, but I realized the issue may lie in the list settings.  I opened the Description column, and low and behold it was being formatted as PLAIN TEXT! Changed it to Rich Text and all was fixed.

I hope this helps anybody else struggling with this issue as well!