That is not documented by Microsoft and you would be using it at your own risk,
specifically contrary to documentation on addressing merged cells, and if you
unmerge and then merge again the extraneous data will be lost.
Consider it an anomaly not as something to actually use.

"RagDyer" wrote in message......
Just remembered ... there's a way to merge and *not* lose the data ... so
... makes the warning unnecessary ... so ... XL doesn't display it!