The answer is to use Control+Option+Enter, which will create a line break in the cell. As an alternative, Control+Command+Enter can also be used to achieve the same. These combinations work both in Excel for Mac 2011 and the new Excel for Mac 2015. As pointed out by Shameer in this answer, Alt+Enter now seems to work as well in the new Excel for Mac 2015.
Hi all, I have a document with over 1,000 subtitles for a film (I have it in both Word and Excel versions). Most of the subtitles have 2 lines, which are separated with this character: In Word (Windows or Mac), I can easily replace all the with a line break (^p). How can I do it in Excel for Mac? Is there a way to represent the line break within the Excel “Replace” tool, just like ^p in the Word “Replace” tool? Or is there a way to paste a Word table (which has line breaks within the table cells) into Excel, keeping the line breaks?
You need to double-click directly in the cell that you want to put a line-break. Doing this the old Microsoft way in the top part of the screen (the formula bar) where you can see what’s in the cell. For example, if you enter a formula +c5+d5 in a cell, the cell itself will show you the result of the formula but the formula bar will show the actual formula. You used to be able to put a line break while you’re in the formula bar but with Excel for Mac, you have to be in the cell itself for the Option+Command+Enter to insert a line break.