Numbers, return within a cell

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Numbers, return within a cell

Forgive my frustration, but Apple has once again unreasonably changed something and finding a resolution requires an interminable amount of time and energy.

Please, what is the current process for creating a return within a single cell in Numbers?

I've unsuccessfully tried:

Shift-Return
Control-Return
Option-Return
Command-Return
Tab-Return

This is a function that I use frequently, but have recently had to resort to a unsatisfactory and complicated mix of multiple rows, paragraph spacing, font sizing, etc.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.0

Posted on Oct 7, 2024 10:54 AM

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SGIII

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Oct 7, 2024 8:20 PM in response to Ltlmrs

With the cursor active in the cell option-return is the combination that works on my machine and has for years. I'm currently running Numbers 14.2 running under macOS 15.0.1 Sequoia with a US keyboard.

If that doesn't work for you then you might want to check that you don't have a custom keyboard shortcut set up somewhere that might be conflicting with the native Numbers keyboard shortcut.

For a long list of keyboard shortcuts in Numbers see Help > Keyboard Shortcuts in the menu. Not all of these seem to work as described. But they may give you ideas.

SG

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