Bob
How are you creating the diagonal line?
Border or Drawing Toolbar?
In any case, you cannot physically split a cell in two.
The only way to get text divided by a diagonal line is to use spaces and
justification.
Experiment with the alignment functions for cells.
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>When you are using one cell with a diagonal line to separate the row and
>column headings, how do you make the row text to the right margin ih the cell
>and the column text to the left of the cell?