
The keyboard shortcut to open this dialog box is: CTRL + 1 After that, open the Format Cells dialog box and go to the Alignment tab.Now, go to the Home tab > click on the small arrow on the bottom-right corner of the Alignment group of commands.In my case, I have typed Employee and Month in cell B4. And type your two words with space between them and press ENTER. Select the cell that you want to split in half.In order to serve this purpose, proceed with the following steps. We want to split this cell into two so that one part contains the text “ Employee” and another part takes “ Month“. It looks so unprofessional if you put two types of texts in a single cell without splitting the cell. Let’s say, we have a dataset of some employees of an organization and their monthly sales (in USD) till half of the running year.Īt the intersection of the row describing month and the column describing employee name, I have put two texts (i.e. Splitting a Single Cell in Half (Diagonally Down) Let me show you how you can split a cell in that way.

You see that whatever change I make with the cell the format is not changing. This is the best method to split a cell in half (diagonally). In this section, I’ll show you the way to split a cell in half diagonally. Here, I will demonstrate them with proper illustrations. The processes will be applicable in any version of Excel from 2016 to 365.

In this section, you will find 2 methods to split a single cell in half in an Excel workbook. Further Readings 2 Ways to Split a Single Cell in Half in Excel (2016/365)
