Microsoft Excel New Line In Cell

This is a bit of a quickie tip but I scratched my head on it for a few hours one day.

How To New Line In Excel Cell
Microsoft Excel New Line In Cell
Microsoft Excel New Line Within Cell

If you use Office:Mac Excel, you may from time to time need to capture multiple lines of information into a cell. If you come from the Windows world, you will quickly come to realize that Alt+Enter doesn’t work.

To add spacing between lines or paragraphs of text in a cell, use a keyboard shortcut to add a new line. Double-click the cell in which you want to insert a line break. Click the location where you want to break the line. Press ALT+ENTER to insert the line break. To add a new line in a cell, use 'Alt' + 'Enter'.www.thinkreliability.com.

If you want to insert a new line in Excel for the Mac, select the cell, type your first line and press Alt+Cmd+Enter.

There you have it, insanely easy.

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How to count number of lines (line breaks) in a cell in Excel?

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Count number of lines in a cell with formulas

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The following formulas can help you to count number of lines in a cell.

1. Select a blank cell, enter the below formula into it, and then press the Enter key.

=LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(10),'))+1

Note: In the formula, A2 is the cell you need to count a number of lines.

2. Keep selecting the resulting cell, then drag the Fill Handle down to get all line numbers of cells as below screenshot shown.

Notes:

1. For a blank cell, you will get number 1 after applying the above formula.

2. This formula =LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(10),'))+(LEN(A2)>1) can also help you to count a number of lines in a cell but get number 0 of a blank cell.

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