Why can't I get 'alt enter' to create a line break in Excel?

[Guest]

Normally, you can force a line break in a cell in Excel just by hitting 'alt
enter'. For some reason, this doesn't work in my copy of Excel 2003
(11.8012.6568, SP2). It just does nothing, as though I never hit the keys.
Everything else seems to work fine.

Any ideas?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe the alt key is stuck???

Normally, you can force a line break in a cell in Excel just by hitting 'alt
enter'. For some reason, this doesn't work in my copy of Excel 2003
(11.8012.6568, SP2). It just does nothing, as though I never hit the keys.
Everything else seems to work fine.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Dave; Logical guess; no luck. All the other "alt" functions still
work, in Excel and elsewhere.

I was wondering if maybe there is a "enable / disable" function somewhere,
but I can't find anything.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Are you typing something into a cell?

Can you try a simple test:
xyz(alt-enter)abc

I've never seen a macro that does anything run while I'm editting a cell--so I
don't think it would be disabled by a macro.

How about the enter key--could it be stuck?

I hate suggesting this, but does it work after you reboot?

Any chance you have one of those expensive keyboards that can be programmed to
do lots of stuff?