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Carriage Returns when concatenating

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    Carriage Returns when concatenating

    Hi

    When concatenating data in Excel 1997-2003, I used to be able to separate pieces of data using char(10)......and that would effectively put in a carriage return - this made data display quite neatly, especially when text was imported into Desription fields in CRM systems for example:

    eg: =concatenate(A2,char(10),B2,char(10),C2) might look in real data like:

    Customer=Yes
    Reference Customer=No
    Named Account=Yes

    which is neater than using something like a semi-colon....eg.

    Customer=Yes; Reference Customer=No; Named Account=Yes

    Anyway, I don't seem to have any luck using my old char(10) routine in Excel 2007. Does anyone know how I can make this work again?

    Thank you
    Wendy

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    Re: Carriage Returns when concatenating

    Have you formatted the cell to allow it to wrap text?
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    Re: Carriage Returns when concatenating

    Yes, that worked. Simple as that! Thank you. Wendy

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