Eliminating carriage return character

[mejohnst]

I have a userform with a textbox set to EnterKeyBehavior True, MultiLine True, and WordWrap True, which I determined from various forums would enable my users to hit enter within the textbox to create multiple lines of text. These lines of text appear in a field in the document; however, there is a carriage return character that appears at the beginning of each new line of text. This character looks like a rectangular box.

Right now the only way to get rid of these boxes is to manually delete them in the document. Does anyone know how I can get rid of the boxes automatically, or to keep them from appearing in the first place?

Thanks!