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How to insert a line break in the same cell in Excel

It then replaces the line break with a space and puts the result back in the cell. Value Cells 2, 2.

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The easiest way to follow the steps from the office website http: Now go back to the link I posted and expand "Run a Macro" and follow the steps. You should see a macro called RemoveBreaks if you've copy and pasted my code correctly. Run it and you should see the line breaks removed if all goes well. The code I gave you will only modify the contents of B2. You've definitely got content in B2? In fact, a better idea would be to attach the sample workbook if that's ok? I've assumed 10 but you should try 13 and combinations thereof.

I had a feeling There are a few ways we can approach this.

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If it's just a one off then I would loop over every cell in the sheet doing the replace. If you have a fixed range, then we can use that too. If you're going to need to do this more going forward, then I need to know the range that it will operate on. The simple version that scans columns and 65, rows: Value Cells i, j.

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How many columns and rows are we talking here? What might speed it up a bit is to turn ScreenUpdating off that way Excel isn't trying to update the spreadsheet with every iteration Sub RemoveBreaks Application. If you're tranferring files between OS, you'll need to convert them first or match them all. Yes you have to click enable macros you will need to save the spreadsheet as xlsm excel should most certainly support excel, it's developed by Microsoft for Mac.

Just to make my code obvious about what is a row and what is a column in the cells http: Value Cells rw, cl. Experts Exchange Solution brought to you by Your issues matter to us. My pleasure - I can finally go to bed now midnight here: Well, good nite then LVL 1. Chris Leeds Owner Commented: Robert, I just read your successful dialog above and got so excited that I signed up for Experts Exchange. I have a similar, if not the same, situation. Should I begin here or with a new threat?

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Please forgive my parting from protocol, if I am. I'm new here and am ready for direction. Thank you in advance.


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Sincerely, Chris L. Hi Chris, Great news you got so much out of this solution.

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Your best bet at this stage is to ask your own question. Start here: There is also a link to a "how to" for asking questions. The support site is a wealth of very helpful information that a lot of users do not know exists. If you need any more help, feel free to message me directly via the EE message system: Thanks Rob.

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