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Default Insert a semicolon in lieu of ALT Enter

You can use Find & Replace (CTRL-H) to replace CTRL-J (equivalent to
the hard returns) with a semicolon (or with some other character like
| ). Highlight the column first.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Feb 22, 6:46*pm, Access Joe
wrote:
Hey everyone,

Excel 2003 or 2007 - I have both

I have a column of addresses that were entered into one cell at a time using
ALT + Enter for the individual address lines. *For example, ONE cell will
look like this:

John Freeman
123 Melody Lane
Nutley, NJ 07110

I need to separate everything into multiple columns. *So ONE column will
just contain the first & last names, another will contain the Street Address,
another contains the City, so on a so forth.

I know about the CLEAN function to remove the hard returns. *The only
problem is separating the data. *I was thinking if I could insert a semicolon
where all of the Hard Returns are for all the address, I could then use
Text-to-Columns to separate it out the way I want to.

Is there a way to do this? *THANKS!
Joe