To all our readers & friends from USA,
I wish you a happy, fun & safe 4th of July.
For the last 4th of July (2013), we (Jo, kids & I) were in USA. We went to Washington DC to meet up a few friends for that weekend. And we had one of the most memorable evenings of our lives when we went to national mall area in the evening to watch beautifully choreographed fireworks. Kids really loved the amazing display of fire-crackers and enthusiasm. (here is a pic, taken by Nakshu, our daughter)
While we all are back in India this time, it doesn’t mean we cant celebrate 4th of July. So I made some fireworks. In Excel of course.
Here is a little Excel animation I made for all of us.
4th of July Fireworks – Excel animation
First watch this quick demo (<15 secs)
Download the 4th of July fireworks workbook
I got the Excel fireworks idea very late in the evening. So the file is not very clean. But easy to understand and play with. Download it here.
How is this made?
Lets spare the detailed tutorial for another day. Here is a quick summary.
- Lets assume a fire work goes in a straight line at an arbitrary angle between 75 to 105 degrees (90 being vertical) to a random height.
- Lets assume the firework effect creates 40 spokes of a perfect circle whose radius grows as the firework explodes.
- So we create a scatter plot with lines & spokes.
- Thru VBA, we increase the length of line from 0% to 100%, thus creating firework shooting to sky effect.
- Then, we increase the radius of circle from 0% to 100% to create firework explosion effect.
- Finally we change the previous line height & circle radius back to 0% before showing next firework.
- At last, we toggle the display visibility of message (“Have a fun 4th of July”)
That is all. Here are a few previous examples that detail some of these techniques.
- Creating a spoke chart in Excel
- Happy Diwali, animated chart in Excel
- Hurricane Sandy explained in Excel with animated chart
- Showing & hiding a message – Customer service dashboard
So thats all for now. Enjoy your 4th of July weekend and lets meet Monday with something awesome.
11 Responses to “Use Alt+Enter to get multiple lines in a cell [spreadcheats]”
@Chandoo:
One more useful trick.......
In a column you have no. of data in rows and need to copy in the next row from the previous row, no need to go for the previous rows but entering Alt + down arrow, you will get the list of data, (in asending order), entered in the previous rows...
This is another great tip. I use this all the time to make sense of some *very* long formulas. As soon as the formula is debugged I remove the break.
Great tip Chandoo!
I use this feature often and it has even gotten the, "how did you do that" response.
Thanks!
@Ketan: Alt+down arrow is an awesome tip. I never knew it and now I am using it everyday.
@Jorge, Tony: Agree... 🙂
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how can we merge a two sheet.
excellent idea. Chandoo you are genious
Hi chandoo,
I have used ctrl+enter to break the cell. But I did not get the result.
Please tell me how can i break the cell in multiple lines.
Hi, Ranveer,
Its not Ctrl+enter to break the cell, use Alt+Enter to make it happen.
hi Chandoo....
how we can use Alt+Enter in multiple rows at the same time please reply hurry i have lot of work and have no time and i m stuck in this. 🙁
Alt+J worked once 🙁
So I found another more reliable way:
=SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(13),"")
Where A2 is the cell that contains the line breaks which the code for it is CHAR(13). It will replace it with whatever inside the ""