Update: Here are a few tips and troubleshooting suggestions, to use while you find and replace line breaks in Excel. Get more Excel data entry tips on my Contextures website. NOTE: If these steps don’t work, try the tips and troubleshooting suggestions below.
Press the Tab key on the keyboard, to move to the Replace With box.On the keyboard, press Ctrl + J to enter the line break character - NOTE: No text will appear in the Find What box - just a small blinking dot.On the keyboard, press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog box, with the Replace tab active.Select the cells that you want to search.There is a video below, that shows the steps. To find a line break, and replace it with a space character, follow these steps.
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Why does that work? A line break is character 10 in the ASCII character set, and the Ctrl + J shortcut is the ASCII control code for character 10. Instead of using Alt + Enter, you can use a special shortcut to enter a line break in the Find What box: Ctrl + J
Excel won’t let you put that shortcut into the Find What box. However, if you try to type Alt + Enter in the Find What box, you’ll just hear a beep from your computer. To find specific text in Excel, you can use Ctrl + F to open the Find and Replace dialog box. Line breaks are easy to add, but a little trickier to remove. But how can you find and replace line breaks in Excel? You can put one or more line breaks in a cell, to make the contents easier to read. When you want to create a line break (line feed) in a cell, you press Alt + Enter, to start a new line.
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