Slanting cells across top of Word table or Excel spreadsheet?

I want to make a single-page form that has long descriptions down the left,
and names of people across the top -- but the names need to be slanted upward
because there are too many, and the matrix boxes will have only a + or - in
them so they can be quite small. An example would be the mileage charts on a
road map, with city names at left and top but only a few numbers in the
matrix boxes. Is it possible to do this?

Donna

You cannot physically slant cells, but you can format them to look slanted.

First, place a border around the cell and color it a nice color.

Then Format>Cell>Alignment.

Use the protractor to orient the text at 30 or 40 degrees.

Experiment with row height and column width.until you get the effect you want.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:46:01 -0700, Capital Park FHC - Donna
<CapitalParkFHCDonna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I want to make a single-page form that has long descriptions down the left,
>and names of people across the top -- but the names need to be slanted upward
>because there are too many, and the matrix boxes will have only a + or - in
>them so they can be quite small. An example would be the mileage charts on a
>road map, with city names at left and top but only a few numbers in the
>matrix boxes. Is it possible to do this?