adding spaces in front of text and "alt enter:" tabs in one cell (address)

JSH720

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
I have an address that is in one cell formatted with:
Name
address
address2

city state zip

There is a hard tab (alt tenter) between the lines after the first line. (the bolded lines) I need to keep everything in one cell, and add five spaces in front of each line. I need to be able to do this with a formula (for clients that won't let me use macros) and as a macro that I can use on various spreadsheets

Any help is appreciated

Thank you.
 

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It is because Sum is the 9th alphabetically in Average, Count, CountA, Max, Min, Product, StDev.S, StDev.P, Sum, VAR.S, VAR.P.
Cells contain either a value or a formula, not both.
Since you have a value already in those cells the only way to do this would be by either using a helper column (a column that has a formula and refers to column A) or VBA.
So in column B you would have

=" "&SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(10),CHAR(10)&" ")
(the forum has reduced my 5 spaces to a single space)
and format the cell as per column A.

Or use VBA.
 
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Thanks, I'll try it. VBA would be awesome for when I can use it.
 
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