1 – Use a Line Break in a Cell with Alt+Enter A Potential Problem with Using Ctrl+Enter in Excel The line break is the character code 10. While invisible to the eye in Excel, this character may create problems when exported into a database system by prematurely starting a new record every time it’s encountered. Using Extra Spaces to Create a Line Break (Not Recommended) I’ve seen Excel users who don’t know about this shortcut so they try and make the lines wrap inside the cell by providing extra spaces between words. Adding spaces may provide a worksheet cell that looks nice and correct, but an export will also include those extra spaces. (See the formula bar below). Expanding the Formula Bar in Excel 2007 and 2010 The formula bar typically doesn’t show more than one line.
Oct 30, 2013 - This post covers keyboard shortcuts specifically on Excel For Mac 2011. You might also. Working in cells or the formula bar. Repeat the last.
In the two figures above the formula bar has been expanded. You can do this with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+U, which you’ll probably never remember, or you can select the drop-down arrow at the right side of the formula bar. Formula Bar for 2003 and 2008 This keyboard shortcut doesn’t work in Excel 2008 or Excel 2008 for Mac, and there’s no drop-down arrow at the right side of the formula bar. When you encounter a cell with more than one line Excel automatically expands the formula bar. No manual intervention required.
This is why some users are stumped after upgrading to 2007 or 2010 and finding they can’t see the entire cell contents in the formula bar. I know I was. Dennis HELP.
I have a list of abbreviation & Acryonyms and the word(s) for that abbreviation. Can anyone help me with trying to get a new line into a formula? My currently formula is: =UPPER(B2)&”: “&B2&” is a data modeling abbreviation/acronym for “& PROPER(A2) “AI: ai is a data modeling abbreviation for Ab Initio” Examples (in 2 different columns): accept = acpt accounts payable = ar I need to create a title then a sentence. ACPT: acpt is a data modeling abbreviation/acronym for Accept. ——new cell—————– AR: ar is a data modeling abbreviation/acronym for Accounts Payable.
——new cell—————– etc. Marczewski Use vbNewLine (constant in VBA code – check Miscellaneous constants in VBA Help) – it is system dependent (different in Mac and in PC). However, it won’t work unless you set word wrapping in cell format (the same is true for line break inserted by using keyboard, e.g. Alt-Enter) – you’ll see this non-printable character as a small box (Win), with test wrapping on you get new line and no strange characters. Alternatively use various combinations of vbCr and vbLf to test/see what works for your system (of course text wrapping must be on), e.g. Char(13) & char(10): function testCrLf testCrLf = vbCr & vbLf end function.
Takioso Hi, I could not figure out, yet, how to produce cvs files that are suppose to contain several lines with in one value (cell). Actualy i usse java to export my csv-file, tat works fine, but without he ablility of giving excel 2010 the correct hint to have that certain values with new lines. Always excel thinks it would be a new row. I already tried using ‘ r’ instead of ‘ n’ wih in he value. I am workig on a Windows 7 System can you give a woking excample record how it is supossed to look like? Thanks a lot in advance and best regards Takidoso.
Here is an answer to a question I once saw asked. Several months ago I saw someone told 'there's no way to do that' when they asked if there was a way to go to the formula bar with a shortcut from the keyboard but today I could not find this post again to answer that question. I came across a good answer in the article, Applies to: 'If you don't want to edit directly in cells, click Options on the Tools menu, click the Edit tab, and then clear the Edit directly in cell check box.' And so, if you make that setting, then. When you click on any cell to type into it, the insertion point goes directly to the formula bar.
(A very short cut and much easier to work with, imo.) And with the above setting made, then the F2 key, (which is normally a shortcut to open and edit directly into a cell), now becomes just a shortcut to the formula bar.