How to filter all cells with line break or carriage return in Excel?

Normally, you may press Alt + Enter keys to wrap the cell contents to multiple lines within a cell, but, how could you filter all cells with these line break characters in Excel?

Filter all cells with line break or carriage return by using Filter function

Filter all cells with line break or carriage return by using Filter function

The following steps can help you to filter all cells which contain the line break characters, please do as this:

1. Double click the cell which below the column data that you want to filter, and then press Alt + Enter keys to input a single line break, see screenshot:

2. Then click the first cell of the column that you want to filter, and then click Data > Filter, then click the drop down arrow to select Text Filters > Custom Filter, see screenshot:

3. In the popped out Custom AutoFilter dialog box, select contains from the drop down list in Text String section, and then choose blank row which contains the line break you are created at the adjacentt the drop down, see screenshot:

4. Then choose And option, and go on selecting does not equal from the second drop down list, then choose the blank row again from the drop down, see screenshot:

5. Click OK button, and all cells with line break characters have been filtered out as following screenshot shown:

Best Office Productivity Tools

Supercharge Your Spreadsheets： Experience Efficiency Like Never Before with Kutools for Excel

	Popular Features: Find/Highlight/Identify Duplicates   |  Delete Blank Rows   |  Combine Columns or Cells without Losing Data   |   Round without Formula ...
	Super Lookup: Multiple Criteria VLookup  |   Multiple Value VLookup  |   VLookup Across Multiple Sheets   |   Fuzzy Lookup ....
	Advanced Drop-down List: Quickly Create Drop Down List   |  Dependent Drop Down List   |  Multi-select Drop Down List ....
	Column Manager: Add a Specific Number of Columns   |   Move Columns   |   Unhide Columns   |   Compare Columns to Select Same & Different Cells ...
	Featured Features: Grid Focus   |  Design View   |   Big Formula Bar   |  Workbook & Sheet Manager   |  Resource Library (Auto Text)   |  Date Picker   |  Combine Worksheets   |  Encrypt/Decrypt Cells   |  Send Emails by List   |  Super Filter   |   Special Filter (filter bold/italic/strikethrough...) ...
	Top 15 Toolset:  12 Text Tools (Add Text, Remove Characters, ...)   |   50+ Chart Types (Gantt Chart, ...)   |   40+ Practical Formulas (Calculate age based on birthday, ...)   |   19 Insertion Tools (Insert QR Code, Insert Picture from Path, ...)   |   12 Conversion Tools (Numbers to Words, Currency Conversion, ...)   |   7 Merge & Split Tools (Advanced Combine Rows, Split Cells, ...)   |   Many More...

Kutools for Excel boasts over 300 features, ensuring that what you need is just a click away...

Supports Office/Excel 2007-2021 & newer, including 365   |   Available in 44 languages   |   Enjoy a full-featured 30-day free trial.

Read More... Free Download... Purchase... 

---

Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier

• Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
• Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
• Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!

Read More... Free Download... Purchase...