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I've imported some data into Excel (from a text file) and it contains some sort of newline characters. It looks like this initially:
If I hit F2 (to edit) then Enter (to save changes) on each of the cells with a newline (without actually editing anything), Excel automatically changes the layout to look like this:
I don't want these newlines characters here, as it messes up data processing further down the track. How can I do a search for these to detect more of them? The usual search function doesn't accept an enter character as a search character.
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In Excel the standard line break Alt + Enter character is ASCII 10. From the look of your screenshot it appears there is another character, probably ASCII 13.
To find these, in the standard Find (or Replace) dialog, in the Find What field, use the standard method of entering ASCII character codes: hold down Alt and type (on the numeric keypad) the character code, i.e.,
Alt 0010 for just the line break, or Alt 0013 (release Alt and press again) Alt 0010
If that extra character is not a ASCII 13, you can use the function Louis
=Code(AString) to get the code of the left most character of a string.
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If you press Ctrl + J while in the Find dialog, you will be able to search for those characters.
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If you want to do this with a formula, it would be
FIND(A3,CHAR(10),...
This is useful if trying to break apart an address block.
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The mid() function can parse through multiple lines.
Let's say this address is in cell A1:
Let's grab the street address on the second line. The first step is determine the position number of the two return characters. The first return character is found at '13' with this: The second return character is found at '36' with this: Now the second step. We need to return our address text between the two character counts 13 & 36.
Here the formula is nested together:
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If you have a large worksheet in an Excel workbook in which you need to combine text from multiple cells, you can breathe a sigh of relief because you don’t have to retype all that text. You can easily concatenate the text.
Concatenate is simply a fancy way ot saying “to combine” or “to join together” and there is a special CONCATENATE function in Excel to do this. This function allows you to combine text from different cells into one cell. For example, we have a worksheet containing names and contact information. We want to combine the Last Name and First Name columns in each row into the Full Name column.
To begin, select the first cell that will contain the combined, or concatenated, text. Start typing the function into the cell, starting with an equals sign, as follows.
Now, we enter the arguments for the CONCATENATE function, which tell the function which cells to combine. We want to combine the first two columns, with the First Name (column B) first and then the Last Name (column A). So, our two arguments for the function will be B2 and A2.
There are two ways you can enter the arguments. First, you can type the cell references, separated by commas, after the opening parenthesis and then add a closing parenthesis at the end:
You can also click on a cell to enter it into the CONCATENATE function. In our example, after typing the name of the function and the opening parenthesis, we click on the B2 cell, type a comma after B2 in the function, click on the A2 cell, and then type the closing parenthesis after A2 in the function.
Press Enter when you’re done adding the cell references to the function.
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Notice that there is no space in between the first and last name. That’s because the CONCATENATE function combines exactly what’s in the arguments you give it and nothing more. There is no space after the first name in B2, so no space was added. If you want to add a space, or any other punctuation or details, you must tell the CONCATENATE function to include it.
To add a space between the first and last names, we add a space as another argument to the function, in between the cell references. To do this, we type a space surrounded by double quotes. Make sure the three arguments are separated by commas.
Press Enter.
That’s better. Now, there is a space between the first and last names.
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Now, you’re probably thinking you have to type that function in every cell in the column or manually copy it to each cell in the column. Actually, you don’t. We’ve got another neat trick that will help you quickly copy the CONCATENATE function to the other cells in the column (or row). Select the cell in which you just entered the CONCATENATE function. The small square on the lower-right corner of the selected is called the fill handle. The fill handle allows you to quickly copy and paste content to adjacent cells in the same row or column.
Move your cursor over the fill handle until it turns into a black plus sign and then click and drag it down.
The function you just entered is copied down to the rest of the cells in that column, and the cell references are changed to match the row number for each row.
You can also concatenate text from multiple cells using the ampersand (&) operator. For example, you can enter READ NEXT
=B2&' '&A2 to get the same result as =CONCATENATE(B2,” “,A2) . There’s no real advantage of using one over the other. although using the ampersand operator results in a shorter entry. However, the CONCATENATE function may be more readable, making it easier to understand what’s happening in the cell.
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