In Mac Excel, how can I replace with newline?
Ex:
Finds all
AAA BBB
and replace all with
AAA
BBB
Please any help would be highly appreciated.
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1what is newline ? are you trying to move data currently entered in coulombs to rows– RuskesOct 4, 2018 at 0:23
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@Buscar웃 in a single cell, i need to split it with line break– A JOct 4, 2018 at 0:25
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something like this support.office.com/en-us/article/…– RuskesOct 4, 2018 at 0:35
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are the AAA, BBB the same in the sheet– RuskesOct 4, 2018 at 1:11
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yeah in same sheet, but in many cells in a column– A JOct 4, 2018 at 1:16
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2 Answers
Manually Adding a Line Break
You can do this by pressing Option Enter at the point you want to insert the line break.
It's best that you format the cell(s) as Text to ensure the best results.
Mass Insert Line Break (a.k.a Search/Replace)
You can do this on a mass basis with Search & Replace. As before, it's important to format your cells as text. In the replace field, use the generic formula
="Text1"&CHAR(10)&"Text2"&CHAR(10)"Text3..."
- The text to be replaced in quotes (" ")
- & as the
concat(concatenate) function CHAR(10)as the symbol fornewline
Using this methodology, you can "fix" multiple lines of text (like an address). See the animation below for an example:
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Thank you for the answer. But what I need is not on a single cell. In the whole spread sheet, I have to find the existence of all AAA BBB and then replace it with line break value. Hope the problem is clear now. I will edit the question.– A JOct 4, 2018 at 0:50
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In Word you have the option in Find/Replace to replace with a "special character" like a paragraph or newline character. Excel doesn't seem to offer that. Have you tried replacing your string with the "AAA BBB" plus the MS Word string for a new line (^|) character in the middle? Just spitballing here but often the things work across apps in MS Office apps. Oct 4, 2018 at 1:22
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You can use the Find & Replace
How to find or replace a line break in Excel for Windows
To replace a line break with a space or any other separator, enter the line break character in the Find what filed by pressing Ctrl + J. This shortcut is the ASCII control code for character 10 (line break, or line feed).
After pressing Ctrl + J, at first sight the Find what box will look empty, but upon a closer look you will notice a tiny flickering dot like in the screenshot below. Enter the replacement character in the Replace with box, e.g. a space character, and click Replace All. Replacing all line breaks on the sheet with spaces
To replace some character with a line break, do the opposite - enter the current character in the Find what box, and the line break (Ctrl + J) in Replace with.
Excellent instructions found here
Finding the equivalent in Excel for Mac.
Since I do not have Excel to verify it here is what I found for you to try.
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@bjbk do you have better answer to help the OP, or you just intuitively feel like my answer is wrong.– RuskesOct 4, 2018 at 4:41
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1I have tested this, although the tutorial @Buscar웃 references is very good, it only works in the Windows version of Excel. For some reason (control + J) does not work in the replace field, neither does replacing with the return character CHAR(10) as in Replace: ="AAA" & CHAR(10) & "BBB" -- Good starting point though!– bjbkOct 4, 2018 at 13:14