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Create a Sparkline
One of the new features in Excel 2010 is Sparklines. Sparklines are small charts in a worksheet cell that provide a visual representation of data. You can use Sparklines to show trends in a series of values such as seasonal increases or decreases, economic cycles, or to highlight maximum and minimum values.
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The following is an example of a Column Sparkline showing a weekly trend for book sales:
In the Create Sparklines dialog box, define your Data Range and Location Range, and then click OK.
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The following is an example of a Win/Loss Sparkline to show the history of a teams win/loss record: To get the greatest impact from Sparklines, position them near the data they represent.
To Format Sparklines
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Select the Sparkline you want to format.
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In the Style group, click Marker Color, and then select the colors you want for markers, such as High Point or Low Point.
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Options Highlight cells based on values, such as cells that are greater than, less than, in between, or equal to a specific value. Highlight cells based on the highest, lowest, or average values. Create bars in cells based on the highest and lowest values in the range.
In the Show group, click the types of markers you want to display, such as High Point or Low Point.
Color cells based on the highest, lowest, and midpoint values in the range. Insert icons in cells based on cell values greater than, less than, or in between a specified value.
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You can use the Format as Table and Cell Styles commands in the Styles group to make your data more readable..
You can use the Format as Table command to apply color schemes to your table. You can use the Cell Styles command to highlight or accent specific cells, or set cell number format, such as setting the cell value to illustrate percentages.
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Create a Slicer
You can use Slicers to filter large amounts of data. When filtered, resulting data display only relevant results, without null results.
From the Slicer, select the filter you want to apply. In this example, you are filtering the PivotTable so that only sales of Arts & Photography books in the Bellevue store are shown.
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Slicers require that you have already created a PivotTable from your data.
Add Slicers
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Select a PivotTable, and on the Insert tab, in the Filter group, click Slicer.
In the Insert Slicer dialog box, select what you want to filter your PivotTable by, and then click OK. In this example, two Slicers will be available, one to filter the PivotTable based on Genre and the other based on Store.
Create a PivotChart
In Microsoft Excel 2010, filtering is more user-friendly in PivotCharts. Excel 2010 added interactive buttons to the PivotChart so you filter directly on the chart without having to go back and forth between the chart and the PivotTable. Once the data is filtered, the buttons will contain a filter icon just as the PivotTable does in earlier versions of Excel.
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Using PivotChart requires that you have already created a PivotTable from your data.
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In the Create PivotTable with PivotChart dialog box, enter your data range and location where you want your PivotTable and PivotChart to appear, and then click OK.
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To filter your PivotTable report to show just the Redmond Way store, click OK.
In the Search text box, enter the value for which you want to search. For example, you have a PivotTable that shows revenue for all your stores but you only want to look at the revenue from the Redmond Way store.
Click Label Filters, and then click on the criteria. For example, you want to analyze the difference in revenue between stores that are on streets versus stores that are on avenues, click Contains. In the Label Filter dialog box, next to the filter criteria list, enter a value, such as Street.
To filter your PivotTable report to show just stores that contain Street in the store name, click OK.
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Click Save to SharePoint when you want to share your workbook file by putting it in a central location, or when you have large collections of work being shared between yourself and your co-workers.
Click Send Using E-mail to send an email containing your workbook file to other people. Click Save to Web to save your workbook to SharePoint where it can be viewed using just a web browser and embedded in SharePoint dashboard pages.
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