Split a Cell Diagonally

In this video I'll show two ways to diagonally split a cell. This is a formatting trick to help put one word in the top corner and another word or set of words in the lower corner. You can even fill in one part of the diagonal with a different color. Most often this design trick is used to have two headers in one cell. I'll show more that one method to split the cell in half. One way is a put a diagonal split line (or slash) through a cell and the other is to insert a shape object.
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[@khanhnhutranle4457]

Finally!!! You're such a lifesaver

[@Zerkoto]

Thank you! I've been trying to find out how it's possible for 30 minutes and you are the only source of information regarding this simple but vital option...

[@DougHExcel]

Hi ツZerkoto, glad you liked it, thanks for commenting!

[@ernestol6325]

Nice work - easy to follow - thank you!

[@DougHExcel]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nelsonneocleus4687]

Dear Doug Thank you for the trick. It's one of the (many) things I couldn't do with Excel. (My knowledge of "descriptive statistics" is mostly from the 1970's, before the rise of computer software.)

[@whtan1815]

I like very much the cool little trick included in your videos, eg in this one, press ALT to lock the object triangle to the cell's size.

[@rahoob65]

Thanks for the video. It was a great help.

[@elverdante]

This sure is useful mate, keep it going.

[@akshay_dapke]

Thank you sir

[@DougHExcel]

You're Welcome!

[@srunarsson]

Loved it. Simple but yet I did not know this.

[@adriantarlea-rusu6800]

Thank you very much for this! I've searched a long time such a tutorial

[@TheWarnator]

Thank you very much, would you mind type in words what are you saying between 1:45-1:58, i got lost there when you said press the "*" and enter Thank you

[@TheWarnator]

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[@mariapaulatovar]

Great video! Thank you so much!

[@leebret1]

that was fun, I did both for practice.

[@ruizpostigo]

Very nice :)

[@KrishnaPrasad-hh2om]

Great. Thank you very much.

[@Froggy_days.]

GREAT JOB THANKS

[@ihealthspacanada3263]

Works for me ,thanks for sharing!

[@PatTrainor]

"We don't want a right triangle, we wand a left triangle!" Funny! :)

[@terriroberts87]

Thank you!

[@DougHExcel]

You're welcome!

[@tejaspatel3144]

Very Productive video.

[@jolisadillard7568]

Thank you so much!

[@docholliday7548]

Thank you for the excellent info --well played, man!

[@markuscason7697]

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[@ahmirsamson3913]

@Markus Cason instablaster ;)

[@markuscason7697]

@Ahmir Samson i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@rabatborn1]

Thank you a lot

[@vakos15]

Thank you :)

[@lakedi74]

Thank u very much. it helpful for me.

[@AmalGupta]

Thanks Doug!! Your video helped me to overcome a irritating nag :-)

[@meoshie]

OMG AMAZING!!! Thank you so much !!

[@DougHExcel]

You're Welcome!

[@asifrasheedrasheed3711]

Thanks Alot. Please keep it up

[@DougHExcel]

Hi Asif rasheed Rasheed...you're welcome, glad you liked!

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[@borislavstoykov3103]

Hi Doug H, good video but I know all this you showed. I want to know how to split a cell and insert in both of its parts separate formulas (in one cell). This is the homework that our academic university professor gave us and he tells us that it is called "The torment of programmer" ;) . So, do you know how it has to be done?

[@hopebouldin8584]

Thank you so much, this was so helpful!

[@DougHExcel]

You're welcome!

[@اخترنالك-ش6ش]

Thank you

[@DougHExcel]

You're Welcome!

[@k.sreekumarawarrier5790]

Thanks a lot for the information,which was not seen available in the Excel help.Kindly advise as to how to align the text to come at left top for the upper portion and bottom right for the lower portion.

[@DougHExcel]

Hi K.Sreekumara Warrier, thanks for the comment! Alignment can be found in the ribbon for the to left. Bottom right will be the text box object.

[@GiaKhangNH]

fantastic!!!!

[@YeOldeKamikaze]

>2:40 ALL I NEEDED THNX BAI

[@DougHExcel]

Hi YeOldeKamikaze, thanks for the comment!

[@yuchencheng5470]

Hi, is it possible to do conditional formatting for the split cell when there's two pieces of information?

[@ummmomen]

Thank you.

[@camejane9889]

Wow..!!! thank u very much, I really liked it.

[@mannyr5462]

is it possible fr you to show us how to split a cell horizontally

[@Xcellentone]

Can you use formula on both halves of a split cell?

[@DougHExcel]

Nope

[@SwimminInMud]

Thank you !!!

[@DougHExcel]

You're Welcome!

[@Ace7558]

Спасибо большое за помощь)))

[@DougHExcel]

Пожалуйста!

[@dibyohere]

6 min is valuable. You could say at the first that there is no option to split the cell diagonally.

[@DougHExcel]

Dibyajyoti Sarkar, that is very interesting...thanks for letting me know.

[@el_foz]

The problem with the second method is when you want to fill the other side of the cell with a triangle. You have to rotate it 180 degrees to make it the right orientation, so the text is upside down.

[@skysatshop1975]

cheers

[@BrittneyGlass]

How do you do this with the line going the other way?

[@DougHExcel]

with the shape you can have it flipped the other way. select it, go to Format and select the Rotate command to flip it horizonally.

[@Lakesider]

how about the macbook, in which I don't have the ALT key to start a new line

[@Lakesider]

+PEIWEN LIU ya, I found the solution. control+option+enter thx anyway

[@buzzingify]

Thanks!

[@DougHExcel]

Hi P L, thanks for the comment!

[@sleepmusic6087]

ONE BUTTON TALK SIX MINUTES

[@DougHExcel]

Sleep Music 睡眠輕音樂, that is very interesting...thanks for letting me know.

[@JohnDoeL337]

HOW DO YOU SPLIT A SINGLE CELL horizontally ? (i don't want TWO COLUMNS) - I just want a black bar to appear in the middle of the cell. (that I can influence later on to increase the size of the cell on the left and decrease the size of the cell on the right ,or something like that)

[@DougHExcel]

i don't think this can be done in Excel. You'd have to use two cells make the borders more prominent and merge your adjacent cells to hack this. Or use the drawing tools to draw a line.

[@JohnDoeL337]

Good advice, but I have just one cell; the adjacent ones from the left and right are taken. I want to input text on the left and a subchapter on the right. Guess i'll use the drawing tools.

[@gibbs3145]

This can be done. Check out Gibbs3141 comment at the site below. Basically you will use fill effects and then modify the fill effects code in VBA to remove the blending of colors. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_mac/how-to-split-the-color-background-of-a-split-cell/ec143e20-a47d-474d-afd5-6c93faaba38c

[@sherpadoody]

Thanks that was helpful. Is that your stomach i hear at 1:57??

[@NicolasMartinianoGom]

The Diagonal its messed up...it should go From TOP LEFT to bottom right, thats how its supposed to be...pure logic of where is the Column and where are the Rows. How you draw it has no sense. But Thanks because it helped many people (not me because i thought it was an easier and built in way)

[@JohnDoeL337]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking the 1st time I saw this. He should have pressed the bottom right button instead of the left one.... But people aren't inspired some of the time...

[@rms7999]

I can't copy and paste to Word because it misaligns :x

[@alaaragap8942]

right

[@DougHExcel]

Rick Math, that is very interesting...thanks for letting me know.

[@STEPHNOT]

Was here for agario/ alis.io

[@DougHExcel]

Hi Steph, thanks for the comment!

[@braydenjohnson2797]

oh i thought this was gota.io -_-

[@DougHExcel]

Hi WhyTe io, thanks for the comment!

[@sumayyaali7394]

This is outdated and doesn't help

[@Alpha4lf1150]

Thanks.

[@DougHExcel]

Hi Italia Abriella A, you're welcome!

[@snides333]

Wonderful! So helpful, thank you!

[@MohAboAbdo]

Thank you

[@DougHExcel]

You're Welcome!

[@chennaitax8440]

Thank you

[@DougHExcel]

You're Welcome!