While typing text in a Text Cell, if I want to hit return to get to the next line in the same cell, the cursor jumps to the cell below. I want to stay in the same cell and go to the next line of text. Can it be done?
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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15
Option Return
Option Return
Thanks! After I asked the question, I started playing around with key combos and discovered this. Most other programs do this line break by doing command shift. Mac software is usually very consistent with keyboard combos. This had me scratching my head until I started experimenting.
Thanks, again. Appreciate you quick reply.
I was thinking of pointing out that the answer is "hidden in plain sight."
In case you haven't already looked there, have a look in then menu at Help > Keyboard Shortcuts. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of shortcuts there.
But if this one is there, I can't find it!😀
SG
I used to know many of them when I was working. Not needing them for many years makes me a bit rusty. It's just that I'm used to using Command/Shift in the programs I used regularly. This one seems to be an outlier.
I'm just glad I feel fairly confident in "experimenting" without fear that the computer will blow up. It's a fine line between "playing around" and doing something really bad to the system or my document.
Do appreciate your suggestion.
The equivalent menu command is Insert->Line Break. I was thinking you could assign Command Return to it, overriding what that usually does (Edit->Select Parent) but it wouldn't work. It showed the shortcut in the menu system but the two shortcuts continued to do what they originally did. I then tried overriding Select Parent as Option Return and it shows it in the menu system but both still to do what they originally did. I tried quitting Numbers and restarting it but no luck. I tried making the shortcuts for "all applications", not just Numbers, and no luck. Another bug I guess.
Numbers text line breaks in a cell
