How do I get carriage returns to not be row delimiters in text fi.
 

I am trying to import a text file in which the user has entered carriage
returns for a field. When I import it into Excel, Excel is considering the
carriage return as a row delimiter. I am creating this text file from a .NET
program and would like that program to have to enter whatever special
characters Excel might need to interpret these returns as <ALT<ENTER and a
newline in a cell and not as a new row. Thanks for your help.

I think you may have a problem with the real end of line markers, too.

If you treat each as an alt-enter, then how would you know when the line ended.

But since you're creating this text file, maybe you could convert the user's CR
to a unique character (!) that isn't use elsewhere. Then your text file will
have that character in what will be the cell.

Then when the user imports this file (via a macro you gave them???), your macro
could edit|replace that unique character with a vblf. Set the cell's format to
wraptext and off you'd go.



RV wrote:

I am trying to import a text file in which the user has entered carriage
returns for a field. When I import it into Excel, Excel is considering the
carriage return as a row delimiter. I am creating this text file from a .NET
program and would like that program to have to enter whatever special
characters Excel might need to interpret these returns as <ALT<ENTER and a
newline in a cell and not as a new row. Thanks for your help.

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Dave Peterson