Divide Cells in Excel?

[SWM]

I was shocked when I found that I can apparently not divide cells in
Excel for Mac. I have just started using Escel for Windows at work
and figured that such a basic operation would be available on Mac.
But the office assistant seems to say that the only dividing that can
be done is to unmerge cells that have been previously merged. If
anyone can help, please do. Even if it's just to say "yup they left a
BASIC function off of this version of Excel."

 

[Bernard Rey]

I was shocked when I found that I can apparently not

divide cells in Excel for Mac. I have just started
using Escel for Windows at work and figured that such
a basic operation would be available on Mac.
But the office assistant seems to say that the only
dividing that can be done is to unmerge cells that have
been previously merged. If anyone can help, please do.
Even if it's just to say "yup they left a BASIC
function off of this version of Excel."

Could you be more precise about the "BASIC function"? I'm
using Excel 2000 for Windows and can't divide a cell (if
it isn't a "merged cell"). Is it some new function in
Excel 2003? If it is, well, it won't be so shocking not to
have it in Excel X (which is somewhat older). If it is
not, could you explain how you perform this, I don't see
what it refers to...