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How to enter a carriage return in an Excel file

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Mar 15, 202661385 views
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Problem

How do you enter a carriage return or in a worksheet cell manually ? I'm not talking about a line feed or . I've seen this in a file and the carriage return had a very weird effect on the cell contents, but I can't reproduce it manually. UPDATE There are very good answers about how to enter a line …

Error Output

=A1&CHAR(13)&A2 'Then copy cell + paste values only back again.

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Fix for: How to enter a carriage return in an Excel file

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Found here: Method 1 - Cell Wrapping Often you only need to set the cell to wrap text, and you can set the width of the cell to whatever is desired. Choose Format Cells, Alignment tab, and check Wrap text. The result is: Method 2 - Insert a Return T…

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