- Choose the Cell. Type the first line and press Alt+Cmd+Enter keys. Also use Control + Option + Enter or Control + Command + Enter keys to create/add a line break in the cell. Note: These keyboard keys combination work in both Excel for Mac 2011 or later versions.
- On the Page Layout tab, click Breaks, and then click Insert Page Break. Move a page break On the View tab, click Page Break Preview. Rest the pointer on the page break line until the pointer changes to a, and then drag the page break line to a new location.
- On a Mac, Excel produces csv files with the wrong line endings, which causes problems for git (amongst other things). This issue plagues at least Excel 2008and 2011, and possibly other versions.
I recently saw a question regarding line breaks in the table of contents – OpenOffice does not allow you to edit a table of contents except through styles. Sometimes the way that long headings are formatted might not be what you desire.
Forcing Line Breaks in Table of Contents November 1, 2009 by G2O 1 Comment I recently saw a question regarding line breaks in the table of contents – OpenOffice does not allow you to edit a table of contents except through styles.
One thing to note about the TOC is that the line breaks that you insert in the heading itself will be reflected in the TOC.
Example:
Putting in a manual line break (Shift + Enter) in this heading:
will result in a line break appearing in the Table of Contents:
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So, normally we use ALT+ENTER key combination to add a line break in excel within a cell. This command wraps the text and adds an excel line break each time this key combination pressed. How do we do the same thing using formula? How do we insert line break in excel using formula? Let’s find out…
Generic Formula to Insert Excel Line Break
*Important note: The cell should be wrapped.
Manual Line Breaks Excel Macro
- Here ”text/formula” can be any text or formula.
- &CHAR(10)& this is equivalent to ALT+ENTER.
- & is concatenation operator in excel. It adds any two strings.
- CHAR function returns a character when you supply a valid character code. Character code for line break is 10 in Microsoft. For mac users, it's 13.
Excel Line Break Formula Example
So, here we have this data.
In adjacent cells of values, we need name along with values. Values should be with a line break.
Write this formula in the cell C3 and click on Wrap Text on Home Tab. if it's already not clicked. And drag it down to cell C6.
And this now how it looks like.
See how we added value below with a line break.
Let's take another example, in cell B1 I want to sum values, and in the same cell, i want to show today's date. Date should be entered with a line break.
So to do this we can write this formula to add line breaks.
So yeah guys, you can enter a new line in excel (or say a line break in excel) using CHAR function of excel and concatenation operator (&). You just need to know enable the Wrap Text for cell. Line break in code in Excel is 10 for windows and 13 for Mac.
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