How to draw diagonal table borders in latex, like in excel ?

Question

Is it possible to draw diagonal (parallelogram) cells in LaTeX: the cell content is diagonal, and the cell's originally vertical borders are also diagonal.

Here is what I managed to do using the rotating package:

\begin{tabular}{|r|c|c|}
\hline
\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\
 & \begin{rotate}{45}Trying to save some horizontal space\end{rotate} & \begin{rotate}{45}While keeping headers readable\end{rotate} \\
\hline
this & is & a \\
\hline
sample & latex & table \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

Here is a screenshot of the output vs what is possible using excel:

Thanks.

Answer 1

Sometimes the easiest solution is to insert a picture created by another program (in this case Excel).

Answer 2

I suspect that PGF-TiKZ can probably do what you want, but it's beyond my abilities to give you any help with that.