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Jenny has attended:
Excel Intermediate course

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When typing text into an excel cell how do I create a new paragraph in the same cell rather than the text continuing on from the previous sentence? Hitting 'enter' doesn't seem to work.

RE: Text

Hiya Jenny,

Thanks for the question.

Excel does not have the word processing abilities of word and text formatting options are limited. There is no paragraph break, however, have you tried starting the new paragraph in a new cell further down the page?

Tracy

Edited on Wed 15 Aug 2007, 06:51

RE: Text

Alternatively you could create a text box with the drawing toolbar at the bottom of your screen and using this you can section off paragraphs. The button to the right of the oval shape.

Tracy


 

Excel tip:

Converting an American date format to European using Formula

Excel depending on your local setting will only pick up date values of the dd mmm yyyy oders as date type. If you import data from various sources including America their date order is different with data value in mmm dd yyyy, excel can only treat it as text indicated by left aligning it. To overcome this you have to do the the following.

1. Extract the date components mmm dd yyyy, by using the the Text functions LEFT, MID or RIGHT

2. Reorder dd mmm component and concatenate using "&" in the right order this will create a text string with the date in the right order it then needss to be converted to a value so excel can recognise it.

3. To convert to value encase in TEXT function.

4. Format to desired date format.

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