Only showing text before 5th carriage return

yalane1103

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Hi All,

First time poster, so please be gentle. :)

I have a cell that has 30 lines of status updates (broken by carriage returns). I only want to show the first 5 lines of status updates and delete the rest of the text. HELP! I know how to search for carriage return and show a specific amount of characters before or after the return, but I don't want the text to be cutoff mid-word or mid-sentence, so I want it to end at a carriage return. Just formulas please.

Thanks!
 

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Hi & welcome to MrExcel.
How about
Excel Formula:
=LEFT(A2,FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(10),"^",5))-1)
 
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will you alwasy have at least 5 linefeeds in the cell?
 
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Does that formula work for cells with 5 or more linefeeds?
Also what should happen if there are less than 5?
 
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Does that formula work for cells with 5 or more linefeeds?
Also what should happen if there are less than 5?
oh! so sorry. yes it works when there are more than 5 returns. i thought the cells i was trying it on had more than 5 returns but they didn't.

but to your point, there are cases when there will NOT be 5 returns, and in those cases, i want it to return all the text. thank you!
 
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In that case try
Excel Formula:
=IFERROR(LEFT(A2,FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(10),"^",5))-1),A2)
 
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Solution
You're welcome & thanks for the feedback.
 
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