✅ How to Remove Line Breaks in Excel (Step-by-Step)

Line breaks (also called carriage returns or newlines) often sneak into Excel cells when you’re copying from Word, web pages, or using Alt+Enter to start a new line inside a cell.

These can mess up formulas, formatting, and data exports.

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🧹 Method 1: Use Find and Replace (Quickest Way)

🔹 Steps:

1. Select the range of cells (or entire sheet).
2. Press Ctrl + H to open Find and Replace.
3. In Find what, hold Ctrl and press J.
   (This inserts a line break — you won’t see anything, but it’s there.)
4. In Replace with, type a space or nothing (if you want to delete the line break).
5. Click Replace All.

✅ Done! All line breaks will be removed or replaced.

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🧠 Tip:

Use a space in “Replace with” if you want to separate words, else words may merge.

Before:
Amit\nSharma → Looks like:

Amit  
Sharma

After (Replace with space):
Amit Sharma

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🧮 Method 2: Use a Formula

You can also remove line breaks using a formula with the SUBSTITUTE function.

🧪 Formula:

=SUBSTITUTE(A1, CHAR(10), " ")

• CHAR(10) is the line break character (LF = Line Feed).
• Replace " " with "" if you want to remove the break without adding space.

Then copy-paste as values if needed.

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🔁 Method 3: Power Query (For Advanced Users)

If you’re working with imported datasets:

1. Go to Data → Get & Transform → From Table/Range
2. In Power Query Editor, select the column
3. Use Transform → Replace Values
4. Replace line break: enter Ctrl + J in “Value to Find”
5. Replace with a space or empty string
6. Click Close & Load

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📌 Bonus: Removing Line Breaks in Google Sheets?

Use:

=SUBSTITUTE(A1, CHAR(10), " ")

Or:

=REGEXREPLACE(A1, "\n", " ")

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