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What is the use of shift enter?

Updated: 11/10/2022
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Shift-Enter has different uses in different applications. In Excel, when entering something into a cell, pressing Shift-Enter will put the value into the cell and move to the cell above the active cell. If a number of cells have been selected at the time, then it will go to the previous cell.

In Word it will start a new line, but keep the subsequent text as part of the same paragraph. This can be useful for things like addresses, where there are multiple lines, but you want to treat it as a single unit. Pressing Enter would make each line a separate paragraph. It is sometimes referred to as a soft return.

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