{"id":123,"date":"2013-11-09T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/access-diva.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-12-30T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:42:42","slug":"remove-carriage-return-from-imported-excel-spreadsheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/access-diva.com\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Remove Carriage Return from imported Excel Spreadsheets"},"content":{"rendered":"

You import a spreadsheet and you noticed in some of your fields you have a little box with a question mark in it (see image below).\u00a0 This is a Carriage Return (Alt+Enter in Excel).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0To remove create an UPDATE query and run against the offending field…<\/p>\n

\r\nUPDATE YourTable SET FieldContainingCarriageReturn = Replace([FieldContainingCarriageReturn],Chr(10),Space(1))\r\n<\/pre>\n
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You import a spreadsheet and you noticed in some of your fields you have a little box with a question mark in it (see image below). This is a Carriage Return (Alt+Enter in Excel).<\/p>\n
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 To remove create an UPDATE query and run against the offending field…<\/p>\n
 UPDATE YourTable SET FieldContainingCarriageReturn = […]<\/p>\n
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