Carriage returns

By : Forum Member
Published 29th October 2010 |
Read latest comment - 1st November 2010

We have a client's data file in Excel 2003 that has carriage returns (displayed as tiny boxes) appearing in the cells. We want to be able to remove these characters, but keep the rest of the text.

Can anyone help?

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forum avatarKip FX Design
29th October 2010 1:11 PM
I would cmd-F in a decent programme and enter what the characters display as, then whack delete. Dreamweaver would do it, just export the file to text first.

Thank you for your quick response, Kip. I'll pass that onto my IT guy.

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If you still haven't cracked it.

Ctrl A, Ctrl C your data from your spread sheet

paste it into notepad (not word pad)
Ctrl H (find & replace)
you can cleanse any duff data, then copy and paste back into your spreadsheet.

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Thank you so much, Steve. That seems to do the trick.

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