Return within drawing table cell ?

steve_shubin

When in the drawing tab, how do I do a carriage return within a table cell ? 

I’m using Safari on a MacBook Pro to access Onshape desktop

Thanks for any help !

john_mcclary

You can't do it directly in the table, you will have to open a text editor (Notepad on windows) and copy/paste

john_mcclary

You can't do it directly in the table, you will have to open a text editor (Notepad on windows) and copy/paste

steve_shubin

@john_mcclary

Thanks John
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jmccormick

I am joining this conversation late but I have found that if you type your text first, you can then go back to the place you want the new line and type <ALT><ENTER> (or <CTRL><ENTER> or <SHIFT><ENTER>) it will add the return character to the text.   If you type any of these combinations as you type, it will just jump to a new cell in the table.

john_mcclary

That does not work for me @jmccormick

jmccormick

Ahh...  Looking at it further, you have to force some text wrapping in the cell before this will work.  I found that I needed at least 3 lines that were text wrapped before I could add the carriage return.  It might be easier to just paste the text into the cell like @john_mcclarypreviously suggested.

If you have the opportunity to mess with the cell width, you can force 3 lines then add the carriage return and reset the cell width.

See 
NeilCooke's comment in:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9996/can-i-have-multi-line-text-in-a-drawing-table-cell

john_mcclary

Eventually these "hacks" need to be addressed and alt+enter should add a new line, just like excel

steve_shubin

@john_mcclary

Eventually these "hacks" need to be addressed and alt+enter should add a new line, just like excel

Yeah - I’d like that !