Skip to content
xlsoffice. All Rights Reserved
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Lookup and Reference Examples

  • How to use Excel OFFSET function
  • Left Lookup in Excel
  • INDEX function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Two-way lookup with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • Extract data with helper column in Excel

Data Analysis Examples

  • Everything about Charts in Excel
  • Get column name from index in Excel Table
  • Understanding Pivot Tables in Excel
  • Data Series in Excel
  • Remove Duplicates Example in Excel

Data Validation Examples

  • How To Create Drop-down List in Excel
  • Excel Data validation require unique number
  • Excel Data validation specific characters only
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year
  • Excel Data validation whole percentage only

Add line break based on OS in Excel

by

To add a line break taking into account the current OS (Mac or Windows), you can use the INFO function to test the system and then return the correct break character — CHAR(10) for Windows, CHAR(13) for Mac.

Note: make sure you have text wrap enabled on cells that contain line breaks.

Worked Example:   Calculate conditional mode with criteria in Excel

Formula

=IF(INFO("system")="mac",CHAR(13),CHAR(10))

Explanation

The character used for line breaks is different depending on whether Excel is running on Mac or Windows: CHAR(10) for Windows, CHAR(13) for Mac. This makes it tricky to write a single formula that will work as expected on both platforms.

The solution is to use the INFO function to test the current environment, then adjust the line break character accordingly. We do this by adding this formula to C3:

=IF(INFO("system")="mac",CHAR(13),CHAR(10))

Then we we name C3 “break” so we can use the word break like a variable later. If Excel is running on a Mac, break will equal CHAR(13), if not, break will equal CHAR(10).

Worked Example:   If cell is x or y and z in Excel

In column E, we concatenate the address information that appears in B, C, and D with a formula like this:

=B6&break&C6&break&D6

The result of the concatenation is text with line breaks:

Worked Example:   If cell is greater than in Excel

Traci Brown¬
1301 Robinson Court¬
Saginaw, MI 48607

 

Post navigation

Previous Post:

How to add a line break with a formula while joining text strings in Excel

Next Post:

How to Capitalize first letter in a sentence in Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others
  • How to remove trailing slash from url in Excel
  • FIND, FINDB functions: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to check if cell contains some words but not others in Excel
  • How to count keywords in a range of cell
  • Extract word that begins with specific character in Excel
  • Get days before a date in Excel
  • How to calculate nth day of week in month in Excel
  • How to get Holiday Date from Year in Excel
  • Add years to date in Excel
  • How to determine year is a leap year in Excel
  • DOLLARFR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Calculate original loan amount in Excel
  • YIELDDISC function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • IRR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to calculate simple interest in Excel
Acronyms, Abbreviations, Initialism & What They Stand For
© 2022 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles