Often when you're entering data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, you want certain cells to span multiple lines, either for addresses, multiline pieces of information or just for readability. But if ...

It may be needed that you want to type multiple lines of text a particular cell. The main concern lies in the fact that under Excel when you press the Enter Key, the cursor will move to the next cell.

Microsoft Excel 2013 surrounds the active cell with a dark border to help identify the cell you are editing. Pressing the Enter key after editing the cell moves the active cell to the next cell down.

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...