Unwanted blank line in cell with wrapped text

[Guest]

Unwanted blank line sometimes appears in cell with wrapped text. Editing,
Autofit height and width, and justify do not eliminate it. Forcing column
width to be excessively wide makes it go away, as does reducing the font size
(neither of which I want to do). What's going on? This only happens in some
wrapped text cells.

 

[Gord Dibben]

bbl

If you uncheck "wrap text" do you see a little square box in the text where
the blank line is?

If so, someone entered a new line using ALT + ENTER.

In that case, you can get rid of these boxes by Edit>Replace

what: hit ALT + 0010(you won't see anything but it's there)
with: nothing

The 0010 must be typed on the NumPad to the right side of keyboard.

Could also be 0013

If can't resolve perhaps David McRitchie's TRIMALL macro will do the trick.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

This original post is a question I have, too. It's text that I have entered
and I don't have any manual line breaks. If I take away the word wrap
formatting, it loses the extra blank line--and if I then auto-fit that
column, it fits just the text as entered, so I don't think there are any
extra items there.

I looked at the macro you referenced but that appears to be useful for, say,
if someone had copied and pasted the contents of the worksheet from somewhere
else.

I'm really surprised to find that there's not some simple answer to this
question! It's something I've been annoyed by for years, but I'd just
never gone looking for a solution. Thanks anyway!