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Answer: Select text before carriage return
- Assuming the text is in cell A1, use the FIND function to locate the position of the first carriage return. The formula would be:
Formula:
=FIND(CHAR(10),A1)
- The CHAR(10) function returns the character code for a line break, which is what a carriage return is. The FIND function then returns the position of that character within the text in cell A1.
- Now that you know the position of the carriage return, you can use the LEFT function to extract the text before it. The formula would be:
Formula:
=LEFT(A1,FIND(CHAR(10),A1)-1)
- The LEFT function takes two arguments: the text you want to extract from (cell A1), and the number of characters you want to extract (which is the position of the carriage return minus 1, since you don't want to include the carriage return itself).
- This formula will return the first line of text in cell A1. To get the second line, you can use a similar formula, but this time you want to extract the text after the first carriage return. Here's the formula:
Formula:
=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(10),A1)+1,FIND(CHAR(10),A1,FIND(CHAR(10),A1)+1)-FIND(CHAR(10),A1)-1)
- The MID function takes three arguments: the text you want to extract from (cell A1), the starting position of the text you want to extract (which is the position of the first carriage return plus 1), and the number of characters you want to extract (which is the position of the second carriage return minus the position of the first carriage return minus 1).
- This formula will return the second line of text in cell A1. You can modify it to extract the third or fourth line by changing the starting position and the ending position accordingly.
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