If the worksheet is protected or the workbook is shared you'd see this.

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Jim
"teepeeusa" wrote in message
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| Software - Excel 2003 (11.6355.6360) SP1
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| I previously merged 4 rows in 4 seperate columns into 4 cells. That is, I
| created one larger cell comprised of 4 rows in each 1 column, of 4
columns,
| using Excel's merge feature. I would like to split the merged cells back
into
| their original 4 rows but the merge functionality of the Alignment tab of
the
| Format Cells' dialog box is grayed out. I have searched microsoft help and
| found an atlernative method for spliting cells - selecting the cell and
using
| the Merge and Center button on the formatting toolbar - but it too is
grayed
| out. I am not sure what I have done that would have caused this
functionality
| to be restricted. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks