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1. #EXCEL FIND AND REPLACE WITH CARRIAGE RETURN HOW TO#
2. #EXCEL FIND AND REPLACE WITH CARRIAGE RETURN CODE#
3. #EXCEL FIND AND REPLACE WITH CARRIAGE RETURN WINDOWS#

So, this is how you can replace line breaks, paragraph breaks and carriage returns in MS Word document. This guide solves your day to day MS Word problems. NOTE: This article is part of my MS Word Guide. Therefore, type ^l in “Find what” box and replace it something else (or with nothing). Instead of finding paragraph sign (^p), now you should look for line break or carriage return sign (represented by ^l).

#EXCEL FIND AND REPLACE WITH CARRIAGE RETURN HOW TO#

How to Remove / Replace Line Break, Carriage Return (Enter key)įollow the same process as given above. READ ALSO: How to find ant replace formatting And you’ll get a monolithic chunk of text! If you simply want to remove paragraph breaks just leave the “Replace with” box blank. For example, if you want to replace every paragraph break with two paragraph breaks –then you should type ^p^p in “Replace with” box. You can use whatever character(s) you like in “Replace with” box. Thus all the paragraph breaks in you document will get replaced by a comma.

Let’s first see how to deal with paragraph break: If lines are breaking due to line break (carriage return), a left-angled arrow symbol will appear at the end.

If lines are breaking because of paragraph break then ¶ will appear at the end of the lines. Our tips on MS-Word make your life easier and increase your productivity at work. You should click this button to be able to see what exactly is separating the lines. You can toggle the visibility of this character by clicking a button given on the Home tab in MS Word. In MS-Word, paragraph break is represented by invisible character (¶) which looks like a horizontally flipped P letter. And I wanted this list to become a comma separated list (CSV) so as to use it somewhere else. I was processing a long list of email addresses with one email address per line. Today, while doing a bit of data processing, I was required to remove all the line breaks (carriage return) in an MS-Word document and replace line breaks with a comma. I'd then type a Space, and it hit Replace All.

#EXCEL FIND AND REPLACE WITH CARRIAGE RETURN WINDOWS#

On Windows I'd do CTRL+R for find and replace, then hold the alt key and type 010 which would insert a linebreak into the find field. There are several names line break, new line, carriage return, paragraph break etc. I'm trying to do a find and replace in Excel 2016 for Mac, to replace all line breaks with a space. There are severl characters that act as line break. Ref.value = we see two lines of words in an MS Word document, we don’t get to see what is separating them.

#EXCEL FIND AND REPLACE WITH CARRIAGE RETURN CODE#

Putting all of the code together, we get the following which can be saved to an html file. When the cursor is moved away from the Text Area, the function is automatically called and the list is formatted with commas replacing the line feeds and carriage returns on each line. Using a simple HTML page with a Text Area, we can paste the data list into the form. Enter a carriage return / line feed separated column of data, move focus off the text area, and the code will automatically format the list. Test the code using the following text area. The comma as the second argument to the function may be replaced with any other character to meet your specific requirement. The JavaScript function uses a simple regular expression to remove line feeds and carriage returns.

I find this particularly useful when formatting a data column from Excel into an SQL constraint. The following JavaScript function can be used to replace line feeds and carriage returns with commas.