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ThomasDay
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Impactful Individual

Carriage Return in Text String

Hello fellow Dax'ers,

 

I read an interesting blog post by Chris Webb on dynamic chart titles.  Nicely done.   It uses a card visual to display a concatenated title from slicer table[variables].  My darn "card" first off, doesn't word wrap...grrr...but beyond that I'd like to insert a carriage return in the text string and then do some formatting--add a tab maybe?.

 

So how the heck do I put in a carriage return into the string?  How about Tab? (OK, that doesn't really matter...I'll put spaces in for the "tab" but if there were one.

 

Thanks,

Tom

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MattSwan
Frequent Visitor

alt+enter to add a carriage return, then type in a space in the line between text i.e.

 

Test = "Before carriage return
 
After carriage return"
Eric_Zhang
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@ThomasDay

 

If you're talking about display a carriage return in a Card visual, there seems no way.

 

You can put in a carriage return by "alt+enter", but it won't display as a new line in visuals. when hover your mouse on the card, you can see the value with carriage returns. This behavior looks by design.

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Thank you very much.  Would have loved to either have a card actually "word wrap" which is a selection that doesn't seem to make any difference, or be able to put in carriage returns manually.

 

I appreciate your help!

Tom

Would concatenating UNICODE(10) to the string achieve what you're after?

UNICHAR(10) does the job

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