Today is the last day of “your week @ PHD“. We have received several very good excel tips, charting tricks from all of you. I have learned some really cool things, I hope you managed to pick up a few.
In case you missed the posts, here is the gist of what you missed. So go ahead and read them.
Excel tips submitted by you – Part 1:
- A macro to unhide all sheets by Kat
- KPI Dashboard with VBA and Charts by David
- Using Excel’s Find to Save time at work by Christy Lee
- An Array Formula to Solve a Tricky Problem by Rajinikanth
Excel tips submitted by you – Part 2
- Use array formulas to refine text search by Vishy
- A bunch of very useful keyboard shortcuts by Barbara
- Important tip on how to get ready when you want to make a chart by Jon Peltier
Excel tips submitted by you – Part 3
- Fantastic tutorial on R1C1 style of formula referencing by Vishy
- Nifty vlookup hack by Thuy
- Adding web toolbars to excel UI by Ang Kean
Excel tips submitted by you – Part 4
- Plain English syntax of INDEX – MATCH Combo by Teyln
- Date formula hack to findout the age / experience of a person by Rajinikanth
- Turn on “iterative mode of calculations” by default using VBA by Michael
Now, Your turn to teach us something new
We have 24 hours more to go before your week ends. So go ahead and share your tips, the thread is open, Use the comments below to share your tips. We are waiting…
PS: Please do not submit any more tips to the google docs form. Instead use the comments form below.
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... 🙂
[...] Day 1: Insert Line Breaks in a Cell [...]
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 ""