Why can't I get 'alt enter' to create a line break in Excel?

Normally, you can force a line break in a cell in Excel just by hitting 'alt
enter'. For some reason, this doesn't work in my copy of Excel 2003
(11.8012.6568, SP2). It just does nothing, as though I never hit the keys.
Everything else seems to work fine.

Any ideas?

Maybe the alt key is stuck???



babbott wrote:
>
> Normally, you can force a line break in a cell in Excel just by hitting 'alt
> enter'. For some reason, this doesn't work in my copy of Excel 2003
> (11.8012.6568, SP2). It just does nothing, as though I never hit the keys.
> Everything else seems to work fine.
>
> Any ideas?

--

Dave Peterson

Thank you, Dave; Logical guess; no luck. All the other "alt" functions still
work, in Excel and elsewhere.

I was wondering if maybe there is a "enable / disable" function somewhere,
but I can't find anything.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> Maybe the alt key is stuck???
>
>
>
> babbott wrote:
> >
> > Normally, you can force a line break in a cell in Excel just by hitting 'alt
> > enter'. For some reason, this doesn't work in my copy of Excel 2003
> > (11.8012.6568, SP2). It just does nothing, as though I never hit the keys.
> > Everything else seems to work fine.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>

Are you typing something into a cell?

Can you try a simple test:
xyz(alt-enter)abc

I've never seen a macro that does anything run while I'm editting a cell--so I
don't think it would be disabled by a macro.

How about the enter key--could it be stuck?

I hate suggesting this, but does it work after you reboot?

Any chance you have one of those expensive keyboards that can be programmed to
do lots of stuff?

babbott wrote:
>
> Thank you, Dave; Logical guess; no luck. All the other "alt" functions still
> work, in Excel and elsewhere.
>
> I was wondering if maybe there is a "enable / disable" function somewhere,
> but I can't find anything.
>
> "Dave Peterson" wrote:
>
> > Maybe the alt key is stuck???
> >
> >
> >
> > babbott wrote:
> > >
> > > Normally, you can force a line break in a cell in Excel just by hitting 'alt
> > > enter'. For some reason, this doesn't work in my copy of Excel 2003
> > > (11.8012.6568, SP2). It just does nothing, as though I never hit the keys.
> > > Everything else seems to work fine.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dave Peterson
> >

--

Dave Peterson