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How to remove the carriage Returns in excel

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Old 18-07-2011
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How to remove the carriage Returns in excel

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I am endeavoring to mechanically eliminate carriage returns commencing from an Excel 2000 Spreadsheet. I have comprised and tried the holddown alt and type 0010 or 0013 in the locate and replace, other than without achievement. Several advice would be to a great extent appreciated. Yes I am convinced they are carriage returns. Locate(CHAR(10)|G5) return a value of 8. Character is presently my register separator. The predicament with utilizing alt 0010 was an artifact of using my laptop keyboard. Which does not have a separate number pad, I hooked up an exterior keyboard and that solved the predicament other than lead to an additional one. I am at present receiving an error at the same time as trying to do this replace.

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Re: How to remove the carriage Returns in excel

Are you convinced they are carriage return. You have to locate (CHAR(10),A1) or =FIND(CHAR(13),A1) if mutually formulas come back an error then there be obliged to be something else If you acquire a numeral then the replace must be completed incorrectly create certain that match entire cell contents is not checkered under options and type moreover 010 or 0010. On the other hand, I have become aware of sometimes with the intention of excel not be able to locate a character that I be familiar with is there and then if I close Excel, start the entire in excess off again it determine to work.
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Re: How to remove the carriage Returns in excel

I have exported the entire our acquaintances out of Outlook to excel and the addresses and a number of additional fields are being exported through the carriage return, other than you not be able to observe the symbol. If I export to tab surrounded file, the ones through the carriage return are being position into 2 to 3 disconnect lines and creates importing impracticable. For illustration, when I hit it off on a field it essentially come into view as 123 Street unit 4 so if it's exported to text, it messes up the whole thing.
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Re: How to remove the carriage Returns in excel

At present, through cells that had additional than 2 returns, it's a mess. Even if I backspace in excess of data and re-type it is eliminating letters and inserting spaces. This seems to be such a enormous responsibility just to eliminate formatting. Why determine to edit > Copy < paste special > values not eliminate forma ting. Even if I paste into notepad, copy, then paste back into an innovative cell it is tranquil positioning data through returns. On the other hand, ones to facilitate have additional than 2 lines, still have a number of sort of character within them that I not be able to remove.
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Re: How to remove the carriage Returns in excel

I have encompassed and tried the entire of these steps and not anything seems to work. I am doing a copy/paste commencing from outlook 2003 to excel 2003. The street line through additional than one line sends the entire the data subsequent to to the subsequently line and if there are 3 lines it acquire bumped yet the entire in excess off again. I have comprised and never gotten Char(13) to behave adequately in the Edit|Replace dialog. The predicament through utilizing alt 0010 was an artifact of using my laptop keyboard which does not encompass a separate number pad, I hooked up an external keyboard and with the intention of solved the predicament, other than lead to an additional one.
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Re: How to remove the carriage Returns in excel

I have encompassed a comma surrounded which uses double-quotes as the text qualifier. I introduce this file into an additional program and execute a number of analysis previous to generating a report in Excel. The predicament I have run into is one of the fields in the innovative file be able to have carriage returns/line feeds surrounded by the field. I necessitate to eliminate those previous to I be able to scrutinize the file as it's causing tribulations during my import. I have set the changeable "replaceVal" to the "Chr(13)Chr(10)" which I necessitate to replace and with the intention of works other than I necessitate to create a small number of changes.
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