Monday, February 07, 2011

Remove line breaks

Question : I have a report with more than 60K rows and in one column, the cells contains text in more than one line (within the same cell). Instead of manually removing the line breaks cell by cell, is there a easier way?

Answer : There are 2 ways to solve this problem.
One is to go to format cell, alignment tab and remove the check mark on wrap text.
The second method is to use the CLEAN formula. CLEAN formula removes all non-printable characters from the cell and line break is one of them. Assuming that the text is in A2, enter the following formula without quotes in B2 "=clean(A2)".


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