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How do you delimit a line break?

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John Castro

Published Mar 12, 2026

How do you delimit a line break?

Choose a delimited format, choose Other as the delimiter then press CTRL and J on the keyboard at the same time. This makes your delimited a line break (similar to ALT + ENTER) in excel so that each line break that is found is used as the delimiter in your data.

How do you insert a line break in Excel as a delimiter?

In the input box to the right of Other press Ctrl + J to insert a line break as your delimiter. You should see dividers appear in the Data preview pane where there are line breaks in your data.

How do you insert a line break character?

Press SHIFT + ENTER to insert a line break.

What is the code for a line break in Excel?

10
The character code for a line break in Excel varies depending on the platform. On Windows, the code is 10 and on a Mac it’s 13. Note: make sure you have Wrap Text enabled on cells that contain line breaks. In Excel 365, both Win and Mac versions of Excel use CHAR(10) as a line break.

What is Ctrl J on Mac Excel?

Ctrl + J for PC (or Command + J for MAC) This is a Photoshop shortcut will DUPLICATE a selected layer. By hitting Ctrl + J on your keyboard, you will be duplicating whatever it is you have selected.

What is the character for new line?

\n
There are two basic new line characters: LF (character : \n, Unicode : U+000A, ASCII : 10, hex : 0x0a): This is simply the ‘\n’ character which we all know from our early programming days. This character is commonly known as the ‘Line Feed’ or ‘Newline Character’.

How do you insert a line break in concatenate?

In general, when you are typing a text in Excel and you need to add a line break, you can simply press Alt + Enter and Excel will take you to the new line within the same cell.

What is the symbol used to represent a manual line break?

The glyph for the control character for a hard return is usually a pilcrow (¶), and for the manual line break is usually a carriage return arrow (↵).

How do I insert a line break in concatenate?

Which key combination is used to insert a line break?

Insert special characters

To do thisPress
Insert a line break.Shift+Enter
Insert a page break.Ctrl+Enter
Insert a column break.Ctrl+Shift+Enter
Insert an em dash (—).Ctrl+Alt+Minus sign (on the numeric keypad)

How do I turn off Ctrl-J in Excel?

In Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet programs, pressing Ctrl+Y will redo any undo.