Line break in Excel means to start a new line or give spacing between text in a cell. Sometimes, you need to Remove those line breaks from your worksheet. Excel gives you a platform to apply line breaks and also remove line breaks. This article will give a useful overview of how to remove line breaks in Excel. I hope you enjoy the whole article and gather some valuable knowledge along with it.

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5 Ways to Remove Line Breaks in Excel

We find out 5 different ways to remove line breaks in Excel. All of the five methods are fairly easy to use. To show all the five methods, we take a dataset that describes the book names of different authors.

1. Remove Line Breaks Using ‘Find & Replace’ Command in Excel

Firstly, the easiest method to remove line breaks in Excel is by applying Find & Replace command. In this method, there is no need to apply any formula. When you have a large dataset, this method is undoubtedly the most efficient one to use.

Steps

• First, select the range of cells C5:C9 where you want to remove the line breaks.

• Now, go to the Home tab in the ribbon and select Find & Select from the Editing group.

• Select Replace from Find & Select option.

• A Find and Replace dialog box will appear. Now, press Ctrl+J in the Find What It will put a line break character in that box. Leave the Replace with box as blank and finally click on Replace All.

• It will eventually remove line breaks from your dataset.

2. CLEAN Function to Remove Line Breaks

Secondly, you can remove line breaks by using the CLEAN function.

Steps

• First, select cell D5 where you want to apply the CLEAN function.

• Write down the following formula

• Press Enter to apply the formula.

• Drag the Fill Handle icon or double-click on the icon to apply this formula down the column D.

3. Applying TRIM Function

Another easy Function to remove line breaks in Excel is the TRIM function. The TRIM function helps to reduce spacing or line breaks quite easily.

Steps

• First, select cell D5 where want to apply the TRIM function.

• Write down the following formula

• Press Enter to apply the formula.

• Drag the Fill Handle icon down the column or double-click on the icon to apply the formula.

4. Delete Line Breaks Utilizing SUBSTITUTE Function

The SUBSTITUTE function can be another useful function to remove line breaks in Excel. This function will substitute a line break with a comma or blank.

Steps

• Select cell D5 to apply the SUBSTITUTE function.

• Write down the following formula in the formula box.

Here, CHAR(10) describes the line feed character. The SUBSTITUTE function will find all the line breaks and replace them with blanks.

• Press Enter to apply the formula.

• Now, drag the Fill Handle icon down the column or double-click on it to apply the formula.

5. Embedding VBA Code in Excel

Instead of using any command or functions, you can literally use VBA code to remove line breaks in Excel. To use VBA code, we take the same dataset including authors and book names.

Steps

• Open the Developer tab by pressing Alt+F11. You can open it through the ribbon. If you don’t have that in the ribbon section, then you need to customize it and get the developer tab. This will open up the Visual basic interface.

• Now, go to the Insert tab and click on Module.

• A Module code window will appear. Copy the following code and paste it.

Sub RemoveLineBreaks_Excel()

For Each Cell In Selection
 Cell.Value = Replace(Cell.Value, Chr(10), "")
Next
End Sub

• Close the code window.
• Now, select the range of cells C5:C9.

• Go to the View tab in the ribbon and select Marcos.

• A Marco dialog box will appear. Select RemoveLineBreaks_Excel from the Marco Name and click on Run.

• Here, we have our desired result that removes all the line breaks.

Conclusion

Line breaks are necessary in some cases in Excel and at the same time, you need to eliminate those line breaks after your work. This article has shown you the five most useful ways to remove line breaks in Excel. I hope you enjoy the article thoroughly. If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comment section and don’t forget to visit our Exceldemy page

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