How to Split a Single Cell diagonally in Excel

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How can you Split a Single cell in Excel to give you data a perfect looks in your sheets This is required when you wanted to create table and wants to show data table with two different cells data into a cell which splits diagonally.

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You have a data with table as shown below, where you have dates and employee names listed as below and you wanted to merge both the cells Date and Name into a single cells referencing the headers.

Let see how we can Split a Single Cell diagonally in Excel

1. Right click on the cell where we want to put “Date” and “Name” and select the option Format cells from the drop-down.

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2. Select a diagonal border you’d like to specify in the cell

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3. Click “OK”

Set the cell’s Horizontal Alignment to “left” and vertical alignment to “center”.

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4. Type in “Date” then Hit “Alt+Enter” which places the cursor in the second line of the cell. The type in “Name”.

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5. Then use the space bar to push the “Date” to right to accomplish the task of Splitting a Cell Diagonally in Excel.

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The Above tip is very important when you want to represent data in a tabular format.

Enjoy Excelling!