I have a cell with a multiline value. For example:
Testing line 1
Testing line 2
When I copy it and paste it at any text editor, there are quotation mark at the front and at the end of the value. That is
"Testing line 1
Testing line 2"
How can I get rid of it?
This is an expected behavior. The quotation marks are necessary to distinguish the groupings of the data with respect to each cell. In the example below, "TEST and TEST2" are separated from that of "TEST3 and TEST4" (with the use of quotation marks) since both pairs belong to different cells.
To remove the quotation marks, i recommend the following workarounds:
Manually copy the data from within the individual cells by double clicking the cell.
The other method would be to copy the cells as is and then hit search and replace the quotation marks with blanks.
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I'm using Google sheets. I just want the cell to turn green when there is something in it. Pretty basic. It works if I type a value in but not if I paste a value from somewhere else. The ID numbers I'm working with are long so I don't want to retype them because it wastes time and creates room for error.
To preserve conditional formatting when pasting to a cell, you can do one of the following
Choose Paste values only
OR
Double click within the cell and paste your value/number
This may be the most niche question ever but let's try it anyway.
I have a Google Sheets spreadsheet that contains cells with multiple lines of text. Each line of text is separated by a soft break.
As shown below, when I copy the contents of a cell (row 2 in the screenshot) from the Google Sheets app to the Instagram caption box, a quote mark is added to the beginning and end of the caption.
If I copy the contents of a cell and that cell has only a single line of text (row 3 in the screenshot), no quote mark is added.
I am using an iPhone 11 running the latest version of iOS.
The extra quotes are added when there are special characters in the cell. In your scenario, the Line Feed characters are causing this. Definitely annoying.
There is a way around this – using Carriage Return characters, rather than Line Feeds to separate each line. For some reason these characters don’t cause the quotation marks to appear.
One thing you can do in your sheet is to create a helper cell that will take your text, and replace the line feeds with carriage returns (assuming your input text is in cell A2, add this formula to an empty cell):
=SUBSTITUTE(A2,char(10),char(13))
The output for this will look like it doesn’t contain linefeeds, but when you copy & paste from that cell, the linefeeds will be there in the pasted text, without the extra quotation marks.
The quotations are inserted by the target application when non-printable or otherwise incompatible characters appear in the copied text. There are several scenarios in which the quotes don't appear, and several in which they do.
For example in the MacOS Notes application, consider a cell containing either a vertical tab (appearing as a line break in a single cell with a Cmd-Enter on Mac or Cntl-Enter on Windows) or a newline character in a formula such as ="test"&char(10)&"test". When copied and pasted into a record in Notes, the text is copied as is (i.e., as expected). However when pasting into the Notes search box, the quotes appear, such as described in the question.
There appear to be 3 alternative ways to handle this issue:
Strip the non-printable characters with a formula
Using the CLEAN function, the characters will be stripped. This will produce oft undesirable results, but will eliminate the quotes. See the Wrapped in CLEAN column:
Paste elsewhere first
In the Notes example, one can paste the offending text into a Note (or presumably any text editor.) The offending quotes are omitted. The text can then be recopied and repasted without quotes. This will still collapse a line feed into a space:
Publish to Web and copy from there
Publishing a sheet with non-printable characters enables quoteless copy, like the previous option, but may be a preferable. See the test sheet
Copy from the Sample Text column. You can paste without quotes, but the line break is stripped and replaced with a space as above.
this is a common issue. the solution would be to paste your copy into fx bar instead of cell selection. this way you can skip the additional quotes
The easiest of the easiest solution is to copy straight from the cell. Mark the text within the cell instead of marking the whole cell and then copy.
its very easy guys
just follow as i say
step1: type letter in a cell
step2: select logo(A) with 4 dash(-) which is on top
step3: select cell
step4:turn on wrap text
problem solved
if you are using desktop
mac: alt/opttion+enter
windows: alt+enter
you can also select all cell at once then you can select format on menu bar and select text warping and then wrap(this is not recommended as it may destroy your table format)
I would like to ensure that names in a multi-line copyright string on the launch screen do not get split by line breaks on different devices. Inside a view controller with a UILabel outlet textLabel, the escape sequence "\u{00a0}" works programmatically:
textLabel.text = "Lots of text before... Firstname\u{00a0}Lastname... and after."
It displays the string with the escape sequence replaced by a space and the words either side always appear on the same line.
However, I can't get it work by putting it in as the value in a UILabel in Interface Builder - either in LaunchScreen or any other View Controller. It just displays the string with the codes left as typed. I've tried all the various combinations of \u, \U, \\u, \\U, \x+, etc. suggested in several SO questions to no avail. I think intervening in the display of the launch screen programmatically is impossible.
Have I missed something?
Don't use \u{00a0} in the text you enter into the storyboard. Enter an actual non-breaking space. The easiest way is to type ⌥-space (option-space).
If you ever need to enter any other special characters, another option is to use the standard Character Viewer. Select Emoji & Symbols from the Edit menu to bring up the Character Viewer. Then find the desired character that you wish to put in a label. You can do this in Swift code as well instead of typing cryptic Unicode escape sequences into your strings.
Is there an easy way to remove the line breaks within each cell?
Each cell on column E, has extra line that I am having to manually remove, any easy to remove all.
Easiest method:
Bring up the Find and Replace box (Ctrl+h on Windows)
Tick the box Search with regular expressions
In the Find input field, type \n
Leave the Replace with field empty
Click Replace all
(If there are still spaces left, click Replace all again)
How about following sample? This sample supposes that the line break is \r\n and \n.
FLow :
Retrieve the information of line break.
If the line break is \r\n, when the number of \r\n is more than 2, it is modified to char(10).
Sample :
=IF(REGEXMATCH(E1, "\r\n"),REGEXREPLACE(E1, "(\r\n){2,}", char(10)),REGEXREPLACE(E1, "(\n){2,}", char(10)))
Result :
If you want to remove all of the line break, you can use =CLEAN(A1). In this case, the result of the result sheet becomes sample1sample2sample3sample4sample5.
If this was not helpful for you, I'm sorry.
Here is my preferred method to remove leading and trailing line breaks. Note that this will not remove any line breaks in the "middle" of your cells.
Right click on Column E > Insert 1 Right
In column F in the first row that has an extra space: Type the formula =TRIM( select the E cell directly to the right, and enter a closing ). For example, in F2 the formula should look like =TRIM(E2).
This cell should display the correct value. Select this cell and drag the little blue box in the bottom right corner to the bottom of your sheet. This will copy the formula to all other cells, updating the row E references.
When all the data in row F looks as expected, click on the very top of the row to select it and click copy.
Right click on the top of row F again and select Paste Special > Paste Values Only.
Now that Column F has the data you need, you can right click on the top of Row E > Delete column.
Here is the formula I use:
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(E2,CHAR(10)," "))
The value CHAR(10) will identify new lines and replace it with a " ".
And the TRIM will remove multiple white spaces.
Is there a way to remove the conditional formatting from cells, while keeping the applied format intact?
The only way I've found is:
Copy the cells.
Clear formatting on the cells (ctrl + \)
Paste special -> Paste format only (paste over the said cells).
Copy a cell that has no conditional formatting
Select the cells with de conditional formatting you want to delete
Click Edit > Paste special > Paste conditional formatting only.
Yes, to remove individual conditional formats while leaving other formatting unchanged, in Google Sheets:
If the conditional format pane on the far right is present, close it by clicking the X in the top right of the pane.
Highlight the range of cells (or select a single cell if you want to remove conditional format for only 1 cell) that have conditional formatting applied. For this to work, at least one of the cells you've highlighted must have conditional formatting defined.
Right click the highlighted cells and select "Conditional Formatting" from the context menu.
A vertical panel on the right will appear with a list of conditional format rules that are present in the highlighted range.
Hover the cursor (do not click -- just hover) over the rule you want to delete. As you hover a trash can icon will appear.
Click the trash can icon to remove that particular conditional format.
Copy the required range to another sheet and paste special, values only. Then immediately paste special again, formatting only.
If you want to keep the work in the same place on the same sheet, just cut instead of copy, and then do the above paste operations to the same place.
The advantage of the first method is that by creating a copy you can't accidentally mess up your original and can always replace this when you are satisfied with the result.
I know this is an old question, but I tried the approaches suggested. They don't work. The conditional formatting 'çonditions' are also copied across.
My Solution is to copy and paste into excel and then copy the values back into google sheets.
When pasting into excel the 'conditions' don't get copied over.
Some Redditor saved the day!
Here's the link
function clearFormatting () {
var s = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var ss = s.getActiveSheet();
ss.clearConditionalFormatRules();
}
To add to the most-voted answer, you can actually do this on an entire sheet, in case that's helpful. (Mac keys shown here)
Command-a to Select All
Command-c to Copy
Command-\ to Clear Formatting
Command-Option-v to Paste Format Only
Without a script is possible with a hack: copy into say Word and back again.