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Excel-New-Line-in-Cell<\/a>Download File<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

If you use Word, you know that you can enter a new line by pressing the Enter key. But when you try this in Excel, you will notice that Excel treats it a little differently than Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of adding a line break, it confirms the value or formula inside a cell and moves to the cell below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But there is a way you can add a page break<\/a> in the exact place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you enter the page break<\/a>, you have to activate the text wrapping option. You can find it in Home >> Alignment >> Wrap Text<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, Excel added automatic line breaks to fit the text inside the cell<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, make column A<\/strong> wider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can set the exact size where the text breaks or add a line<\/a> break so it will break in the place you want. In our example, we want to break the line after the comma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the cell and press F2<\/strong>. Move your cursor, using arrow keys, and place it before the second sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Press Alt + Enter<\/strong> on Windows or \u2303 + \u2325 + Return<\/strong> on Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s going to break the line exactly as we wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New line in a formula<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s try something different. Instead of using a single cell, insert the two sentences into different cells, and then we are going to use a formula to concatenate<\/a> them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you press Enter the two sentences and then press text wrapping<\/a>, the cell is going to act the same way as before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you press Enter + Alt<\/strong> inside a formula, you are going to get the following result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a new line inside the formula, but the result is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a way to add a special character<\/a> to a formula, to add a new line, not in a formula, but in the result of a formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This special character<\/a> is line feed (LF)<\/strong>. You can add it by using the CHAR<\/a> function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what the formula looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

=A1&CHAR(10)&A2<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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The formula is intact, and there is a new line inside a cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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