Line Breaks/Carriage Returns in Numbers Forms

I was just about to post this problem as well.

I have a giant spread sheet of my LP collection in Numbers. There is one field where I want to enter info like this, with a return after the first line:

Riverside Records RLP-12-320 MONO
Blue and silver label, Mic and Reels at top, Bill Grauer Productions at bottom

With the onscreen keyboard, it's not a problem. I hit the return button on the screen and it starts a new line in that cell under the first line.

With the bluetooth keyboard, I can't seem to find any combination of keys to get the cursor to start a new line. Anytime I try, the result is the cursor jumps to the cell below.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

-Phil

Intel 8-Core beast, PB 1.67ghz G4, 450mhz Cube etc.... iOS 4 RAM, and lots of it!
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Have you tried shift+return?

Thanks for the reply. Yep, I tried shift and every key there is- fn, control, option, command. Interestingly, the command-return does nothing. Control-return and option-return (with and without the **** key) all make it jump to one cell below.

It wouldn't be a big deal if I had the option to pull up the on-screen keyboard in addition to the bluetooth keyboard. I could just tap the return key on the screen when I needed to.

On the full Mac version of the app, you have to option-return to get the curser to start a new line.

Maybe they didn't write it in to the app.... I'll have to see if I can find a way to pull up the onscreen keyboard as a work around.

Well, on a burst of inspiration, I discovered that if I tap the eject key on the bluetooth keyboard, the onscreen keyboard pops up. I guess that's a decent work-around for the problem.

Now if I can only figure out why spell check is disabled when I'm using the Bluetooth keyboard...