You can have black as a pattern within the cell
Format, Cells, pattern, choose a pattern, and choose a color.

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"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ...
Cells can have only one background color.

You could workaround by placing a drawing objec(rectangle?)t over half the cell.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:16:01 -0700, SmokeyMo
wrote:

Can anyone help me. I am trying to shade one excel cell 2 different colors.
Is there a way I can do this? I am talking about the background not the font
color. Thanks!