Excel cell question
 

hello: I am trying to divide up my cell from top right corner to bottom left
corner, how do i do that that would allow me to enter numbers there?

Excel cell question
 

Excel has no provision to do this.

Manually you can enter the numbers as text with spaces between.

Then use the interior slanted border or play with the line tool from the drawing
toobar.

Either way, the numbers will be text only and not usable for calculations.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:21:02 -0700, hwank1
wrote:

hello: I am trying to divide up my cell from top right corner to bottom left
corner, how do i do that that would allow me to enter numbers there?

Excel cell question
 

This is not an ordinary case for Excel. Strictly for Display purposes, you
can create the diagonal by doing Right-click FormatCells BorderTab and
selecting the Diagonal Icon..........then you can enter your first value in
the cell normally, but before pressing enter, hold down the Alt key, then
press enter, then type in several spaces before finally typing in your
second value and then pressing Enter.........the cell should "appear" as
you want, but is virtually useless for performing further calculations
on.........

hth
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3


"hwank1" wrote in message
...
hello: I am trying to divide up my cell from top right corner to bottom
left
corner, how do i do that that would allow me to enter numbers there?

Excel cell question
 

You've gotten answers on how to do it.

But don't do it.

Use two cells. If you ever want to do anything with that data (sort/filter/or
even do arithmetic), you'll find that it wasn't worth the trouble.



hwank1 wrote:

hello: I am trying to divide up my cell from top right corner to bottom left
corner, how do i do that that would allow me to enter numbers there?

--

Dave Peterson

Excel cell question
 

Excellent caveat Dave

Gord

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:01:09 -0500, Dave Peterson
wrote:

You've gotten answers on how to do it.

But don't do it.

Use two cells. If you ever want to do anything with that data (sort/filter/or
even do arithmetic), you'll find that it wasn't worth the trouble.



hwank1 wrote:

hello: I am trying to divide up my cell from top right corner to bottom left
corner, how do i do that that would allow me to enter numbers there?

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

Excel cell question
 

..
It's Probably good advice not to use this condition as a general rule.
However, there is really nothing stopping the OP from using it at will. The
configuration can be sorted,..... it can be filtered using the AutoFilter,
.......one can do arithmetic on it......and one can use formulas to get the
upper and lower numbers in place..........just not all in the regular
manners one would normally do these things.

If one has a special circumstance where the end user is much more at home
with a display of this nature, than one which is more conventional to Excel,
then the end may very well justify the means.

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3




"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
You've gotten answers on how to do it.

But don't do it.

Use two cells. If you ever want to do anything with that data
(sort/filter/or
even do arithmetic), you'll find that it wasn't worth the trouble.



hwank1 wrote:

hello: I am trying to divide up my cell from top right corner to bottom
left
corner, how do i do that that would allow me to enter numbers there?

--

Dave Peterson