WordProcessingDocument not preserving whitespace - excel

Question

I'm writing a C# program using XML and Linq that reads in data from tables stored in a word document and inserts it into an excel spreadsheet. The code I have so far does this, however it does not preserve any new lines (in the word doc the "new line" is done by pressing the enter key). Using the debugger, I can see that the new lines aren't even being read in. For example, if the text I want to copy is:
Something like this
And another line
And maybe even a third line
It gets read in as:
Something like thisAnd another lineAnd maybe even a third line
I can't separate the lines by a character as the words could be anything. This is what I have so far:
internal override Dictionary<string, string> GetContent()
{
Dictionary<string, string> contents = new Dictionary<string, string>();
using (WordprocessingDocument doc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(MainForm.WordFileDialog.FileName, false))
{
List<Table> tables = doc.MainDocumentPart.Document.Descendants<Table>().ToList();
foreach (Table table in tables)
{
TableRow headerRow = table.Elements<TableRow>().ElementAt(0);
TableCell tableSectionTitle;
try
{
tableSectionTitle = headerRow.Elements<TableCell>().ElementAt(0);
}
catch (ArgumentOutOfRangeException)
{
continue;
}
List<TableRow> rows = table.Descendants<TableRow>().ToList();
foreach (TableRow row in rows)
{
TableCell headerCell = row.Elements<TableCell>().ElementAt(0);
if (headerCell.InnerText.ToLower().Contains("first item"))
{
contents.Add("first item", row.Elements<TableCell>().ElementAt(1).InnerText);
}
else if (headerCell.InnerText.ToLower().Contains("second item:"))
{
char[] split = { ':' };
Int32 count = 2;
string str = row.Elements<TableCell>().ElementAt(0).InnerText;
String[] newStr = str.Split(split, count, StringSplitOptions.None);
contents.Add("second item:", newStr[1]);
}
**continues for many more else if statements**
else
{
continue;
}
}
}
return contents;
}
}
I'm new to using XML, so any help would be appreciated!