Try doing this find and replace when you first open Excel, before using the Find box for any other searches. If the Excel file has never been saved, try saving the file before doing this find and replace. If Ctrl + J does not work, press the Alt key, and type 0010 on the number keypad (do not use the numbers above the letters). Thank you to everyone who commented, and added suggestions. Update: Here are a few tips and troubleshooting suggestions, to use while you find and replace line breaks in Excel. To get the Excel workbook, with the Add or Remove Line Breaks in a Cell in Excel example, go to the Excel Line Breaks page on my Contextures site. NOTE: If these steps don’t work, try the tips and troubleshooting suggestions below. OR, click Replace or Replace All, to replace the line breaks with space characters. Then, click Find Next or Find All, to find the cells with line breaks. Press the Tab key on the keyboard, to move to the Replace With box. On the keyboard, press Ctrl + J to enter the line break character - NOTE: No text will appear in the Find What box - just a small blinking dot. On the keyboard, press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog box, with the Replace tab active. Select the cells that you want to search. There is a video below, that shows the steps. 
To find a line break, and replace it with a space character, follow these steps.
#EXCEL REPLACE CARRIAGE RETURN WITH SPACE CODE#
Why does that work? A line break is character 10 in the ASCII character set, and the Ctrl + J shortcut is the ASCII control code for character 10. Instead of using Alt + Enter, you can use a special shortcut to enter a line break in the Find What box: Ctrl + J Excel won’t let you put that shortcut into the Find What box. However, if you try to type Alt + Enter in the Find What box, you’ll just hear a beep from your computer. To find specific text in Excel, you can use Ctrl + F to open the Find and Replace dialog box. Line breaks are easy to add, but a little trickier to remove. But how can you find and replace line breaks in Excel? You can put one or more line breaks in a cell, to make the contents easier to read.
When you want to create a line break (line feed) in a cell, you press Alt + Enter, to start a new line.
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