Excel: how do I remove all carriage returns from a cell?

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Alex Gordon picture Alex Gordon · Oct 5, 2010 · Viewed 89.5k times · Source

I want to get rid of all the carriage returns in my cell. How do I do this?

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Nick Spreitzer picture Nick Spreitzer · Oct 5, 2010

=CLEAN(A1)

Clean removes all nonprintable characters from text. -- Excel Help Documentation

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