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CHAR(10)
I have a spreadsheet that someone else created. This spreadsheet has some
sort of line break I am not familiar with. I thought it was char(10) at first, but it will not replace. It shows two boxes when the cell format is unwrapped, however when it wraps, it still shows one box. I have tried to replace by alt 010, but it will not. The way it appears in the cell is like when you get the box before you turn on wrap text when using char(10), but it shows two instead of one. When wrap text is turned on the second string drops, however one box is still appearing....any suggestions? |
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Copy the box to an empty cell, assume you copy it to B4, now use a formula
like =CODE(B4) that should give you the char (I bet it is char 13) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "JJ" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that someone else created. This spreadsheet has some sort of line break I am not familiar with. I thought it was char(10) at first, but it will not replace. It shows two boxes when the cell format is unwrapped, however when it wraps, it still shows one box. I have tried to replace by alt 010, but it will not. The way it appears in the cell is like when you get the box before you turn on wrap text when using char(10), but it shows two instead of one. When wrap text is turned on the second string drops, however one box is still appearing....any suggestions? |
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You were correct, the code is alt 013, but I am trying to replace that and
the edit/replace function does not work. I am holding down alt and typing 013, but nothing happens? "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: Copy the box to an empty cell, assume you copy it to B4, now use a formula like =CODE(B4) that should give you the char (I bet it is char 13) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "JJ" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet that someone else created. This spreadsheet has some sort of line break I am not familiar with. I thought it was char(10) at first, but it will not replace. It shows two boxes when the cell format is unwrapped, however when it wraps, it still shows one box. I have tried to replace by alt 010, but it will not. The way it appears in the cell is like when you get the box before you turn on wrap text when using char(10), but it shows two instead of one. When wrap text is turned on the second string drops, however one box is still appearing....any suggestions? |
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I've never had any success with alt-0013 in the Edit|Replace dialog. (Alt-0010
works fine--as does ctrl-j <equivalent to alt-0010!). If you want to replace these characters with something else (space or nothing???), you could use a macro to do the edit|replace's: Option Explicit Sub cleanEmUp() Dim myBadChars As Variant Dim iCtr As Long myBadChars = Array(Chr(10), Chr(13)) For iCtr = LBound(myBadChars) To UBound(myBadChars) ActiveSheet.Cells.Replace What:=myBadChars(iCtr), Replacement:="", _ LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False Next iCtr End Sub Should it be: replacement:="" or replacement:=" " ??? Chip Pearson has a very nice addin that can help identify those funny characters. http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CellView.htm Just keep adding those Hex codes you found using Chip's addin. If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm Jason Morin wrote: While holding down the ALT key, key in: 0013 on your numeric keypad. HTH Jason Atlanta, GA -----Original Message----- You were correct, the code is alt 013, but I am trying to replace that and the edit/replace function does not work. I am holding down alt and typing 013, but nothing happens? "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: Copy the box to an empty cell, assume you copy it to B4, now use a formula like =CODE(B4) that should give you the char (I bet it is char 13) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "JJ" wrote in message news:BAC2F134-9C62-4430-BB88- ... I have a spreadsheet that someone else created. This spreadsheet has some sort of line break I am not familiar with. I thought it was char(10) at first, but it will not replace. It shows two boxes when the cell format is unwrapped, however when it wraps, it still shows one box. I have tried to replace by alt 010, but it will not. The way it appears in the cell is like when you get the box before you turn on wrap text when using char(10), but it shows two instead of one. When wrap text is turned on the second string drops, however one box is still appearing....any suggestions? . -- Dave Peterson |
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