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Start a new line of text inside a cell in Excel
As already described above by Mr. @Sergei Baklan, Alt + Enter Stopped Working Correctly, you can see the link in his post.
That it works for me doesn't mean that it works for someone else too, read the article.
Thank you for your understanding
I did read the article. AND I checked out everything Mr. Wyatt suggested in his article. The problem persists. Can anyone please help?
You are welcome, but that's thanks to Allen Wyatt: "You might also want to try a different keyboard with your system." I guess he covered all possible reasons.
- BINGO!!! I switched to a different keyboard, and Ctrl + Enter works fine. 🙂
So it seems that the problem was with my original keyboard.
Thank you Nikolino and Sergei for all your help! - Thanks. I appreciate you trying. I'm going to try a different keyboard. Perhaps that might be the problem?
Thanks again! Strange, it works for me without any problems ... just click behind the existing text,
coursor flashes and Alt + Enter,
new text entered and just enter
and the line break appears with the new text added.
As Mr. Baklan already informed us with his link, there is a temporal bug in this command.
Try manual cell wrapping by clicking on all cells to wrap in advance, or the alternative method Right-click the cell whose text you want to break, then click Format Cells.
On the Alignment tab, select the Word wrap check box and click OK.
Unfortunately, I can't help in any other way at the moment.
Nevertheless, I wish you a lot of fun with Excel.
- Sure. Good idea. How would you like me to send it to yoy, email? Please lmk your address.
- Just give it a try, out of pure curiosity, please send a file with me (can also be empty and without sensitive data, please).
I would like to see whether the line break works for me with ALT + Enter or not.
