ALT+ENTER = line break
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Charles wrote:
Thank you for your help. No I don't have a programmable keyboard, its just my
laptop. I did have a problem some time ago when I had my keyboard set on UK
english - that caused a number of keys to be transposed. Its currently on US
which seems to be correct. I have tried an XP reset to a few days ago but
that didn't work. I may have to reinstall Excel - that will be a pain.
Regards
"Dave Peterson" wrote:
I'm out of any real ideas.
Any chance you have a funny programmable keyboard and some of the keys have been
remapped?
Charles wrote:
No, unfortunately it doesn't.
"Dave Peterson" wrote:
If you select an empty cell, then type an "a", then alt-enter, does it work ok?
I was guessing that you weren't actually editing the cell yet--you had just
selected it.
Charles wrote:
Yes, it doesn't work whetehr the cursor is highlighted in the formula bar or
within the cell. Other commands such as Alt+T work bringing me to the
appropriate menu item. Its very puzzling as I have found the Alt+Enter to be
very handy.
"Dave Peterson" wrote:
Are you actually editing that cell when you hit alt-enter?
Charles wrote:
I too am having this problem with Excel 2003 ie alt+enter no longer inserts a
line break within a cell. I have tried the MS method of turning off the
computer, but to no avail. It was coincident with importing a numbered list
from the notes page of a powerpoint presntation, but that may be irrelevant.
"Dale" wrote:
I am having the same problem as Nyla, alt+enter does not insert a line break
as it should, but it does not fix itself -- it seems to be consistently
missing across all spreadsheets, and has been that way for days. Is there a
way of re-setting the alt+enter command to function as it should?
"Nyla" wrote:
What can cause the ALT+ENTER to NOT insert a line break? This usually always
works, but when I tried it at one point today it didn't work. I went to a
different cell and it worked, but the one certain cell would not accept the
ALT+ENTER to insert a line break? Is there a format or something that might
cause this?
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