Excel：将数字添加到合并单元格的框的右上角

Question

I have an excel form which displays a six generation family pedigree chart. Each box for a person's data is merged together from 3 columns and 7 rows. 4 lines of text fit into each box, the 1st line is name, the 2nd birth date and place, the 3rd marriage date and place and the 4th death date and place.

The rightmost two columns are the triple great grandparents of the root person and sometimes a 2nd chart is needed to show their ancestors. The 2nd chart tile is Chart mm-nn where mm is the chart number where the person appears as a GGG grandparent and nn is their number in that chart.

How can I put a number in the upper right corner of these boxes in my chart?

I thought of appending the number to the person's name and flush it right. If possible, it must be with some exotic format string. But each box has 4 text lines and the flush right formatting needs only apply to the 1st.

Perhaps make the numbers as little graphics and overlay them? Chop up the base cells even smaller and merge them into 4 separate lines with the 1st line shorter than the others with a small number box at the end of it?

Ideas?

Jim

Answer 1

The short answer to your question is: no, that's not possible. This is Excel not MS Word. Hence, you can set any given cell only to be left-justified or right-justified . You cannot have both for one cell.

Yet, maybe any of the following work-around might be of help in your case. Of course, I can't be sure since you haven't provided any screenshots of the desired out-come (like a mock-up). But here we go:

This is where you are coming from. A merged box of three columns by seven rows containing four lines of text.

(1) One solution might be to have three different merged areas. The following example consists of three merged areas. The first two rows and the first two columns make up the name. The last column on the first two rows is merged to contain the number and the rest is one merged box again containing the dates and the places.

_{Note, that you can only see the difference to the original since I selected in this example the top right merged area (consisting of the number only). Otherwise, there wouldn't be any (visually apparent) difference.}

(2) Another solution could be to manually insert as many spaces after the name as necessary to make it seem as if it were right-justified . The problem here is (of course) that this changes with the font, the font-size, if the font is bold (or italic) or not, and also the current zoom-factor for the sheet. Hence, this solution would soon wear you out as you would have to manually adjust all the cells constantly. I just wanted to point out this solution for the sake of completeness.

(3) The following solution consists of a text box shape on top of the cell. So, basically I am leaving your original cell (consisting of three columns and seven rows) as is and simply put a shape on top of that cell. The following screenshot shows the result in the top part and the text box being selected in the bottom part (so you can see how this one comes together).

(4) The following work-around is probably the solution you've been looking for and you want to go with. This one is moving away from the cells on the sheet and relies only on text-boxes which are shown on top of the sheet (and thus on top of the cells). Here you can "merge" several text boxes into a group. The group will move and size as a whole. At the same time this group consists of several text boxes and as such may consist of left-justified text boxes and right-justified text boxes as you can see in the screencast below.