1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27 28<meta> 29 <topic id="textsharedguidebreaking_linesxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30 <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Inserting Line Breaks in Cells</title> 31 <filename>/text/shared/guide/breaking_lines.xhp</filename> 32 </topic> 33 </meta> 34 <body> 35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id6305734"><bookmark_value>line breaks; in cells</bookmark_value> 36 <bookmark_value>cells; line breaks</bookmark_value> 37 <bookmark_value>text flow; in cells</bookmark_value> 38 <bookmark_value>text breaks in cells</bookmark_value> 39 <bookmark_value>wrapping text; in cells</bookmark_value> 40 <bookmark_value>words; wrapping in cells</bookmark_value> 41 <bookmark_value>automatic line breaks</bookmark_value> 42 <bookmark_value>new lines in cells</bookmark_value> 43 <bookmark_value>inserting;line breaks in cells</bookmark_value> 44 <bookmark_value>tables;inserting line breaks</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106D5" role="heading" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="breaking_lines"><link href="text/shared/guide/breaking_lines.xhp">Inserting Line Breaks in Cells</link> 47</variable></paragraph> 48 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106D9" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Inserting line breaks in $[officename] Calc spreadsheet cells</paragraph> 49 <list type="ordered"> 50 <listitem> 51 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106E0" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">To insert a line break in a spreadsheet cell, press the <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command 52</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+Enter keys. </paragraph> 53 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106E3" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">This will work only with the text edit cursor inside the cell, not at the input line. So first double-click the cell, then single-click at the text position where you want the line break.</paragraph> 54 </listitem> 55 </list> 56 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0509200914160968" role="note" l10n="NEW">You can search for a newline character in the Find & Replace dialog by searching for \n as a regular expression. You can use the text function CHAR(10) to insert a newline character into a text formula.</paragraph> 57 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106E6" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Formatting $[officename] Calc cells for automatic line wrapping</paragraph> 58 <list type="ordered"> 59 <listitem> 60 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106ED" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Select the cells for which you want an automatic line break.</paragraph> 61 </listitem> 62 <listitem> 63 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106F1" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Choose <emph>Format - Cells - Alignment</emph>.</paragraph> 64 </listitem> 65 <listitem> 66 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106F9" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG">Select <emph>Wrap text automatically</emph>.</paragraph> 67 </listitem> 68 </list> 69 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10700" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Inserting line breaks in $[officename] Writer text document tables</paragraph> 70 <list type="ordered"> 71 <listitem> 72 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10707" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">To insert a line break in a text document table cell, press the Enter key.</paragraph> 73 </listitem> 74 </list> 75 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN1070A" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">An automatic line break will be performed while you type across the end of each cell.</paragraph> 76 <section id="relatedtopics"> 77 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10718" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/01/05340300.xhp">Alignment</link></paragraph> 78 </section> 79 </body> 80</helpdocument>