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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:

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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:

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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 =Code(AString) to get the code of the left most character of a string.

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chris neilsenchris neilsen

If you press Ctrl + J while in the Find dialog, you will be able to search for those characters.

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WasabiWasabi

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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Dan TroxellDan Troxell

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:

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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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Brad SmithBrad Smith

Advanced Find And Replace In Excel

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