Word wrap - add return within cell

I have the need of putting word(s) on definitive lines within a cell. The particular case I am working with at the moment is a cemetery listing that has additional information particularly multiple spouses. I want each spouse's name to appear on a different line within that cell which Xcel does by using either ctl/enter or option/enter rather than putting a number of spaces in a wrapped cell so the next name would shift to the next line. Does Numbers have something similar?
Tks

Found another neat feature that also works with word wrap. Use Inspector to Merge two or more cells, I happen to have a long text in the first cell of three cell I wanted to use. Follow that by adding Word Wrap while still in Inspector. Low and Behold, the text that far exceeded the one cell now uses three cell for display and if the data then exceeds that amount of space it wraps as if the three cell are a single cell. It just so happened that the data I mentioned above needed three lines. Also, if you want specific parts of the data to be on specific lines within the unified cell, both line break functions previously mentioned will force the next part of the data to go to the next line ad infintum(??) or until the combined cell space/character limit is reached.

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