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Gord Dibben Gord Dibben is offline
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Default I need help with removing "enters" that are separating data in a c

CR is my generic term for anything that resembles a line feed or whatever.

Maybe they should be hard returns and soft returns?

It's all too confusing anymore.


Gord

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:39:28 -0500, Dave Peterson
wrote:

I think the CRs would be alt-0013 and the LFs are alt-0010 (or ctrl-j).

Doesn't change your reply, though.

Gord Dibben wrote:

If these are carriage returns you should be able to remove them using DataText
to Columns.

Select the cells...make sure you have some blank collumns to right of
cells........then DataText to ColumnsDelimited byOther hit CTRL + j and Next.

Are the cells broken up?

If so hit Finish.

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:25:01 -0700, Cbapt
wrote:

I have data that has been downloaded from a tool and sometimes comments are
listed in one cell wiht the "Enter Arrow" in between the items which cause
issues. Is there an way to remove the arrows in the column of data?

Example :
*test
*test2
*test 3

I hit the enter key after each line, but in excel it keeps all 3 lines in
one cell