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1. SPARKLINES TO INSERT
GRAPHS IN A SINGLE
CELL IN EXCEL 2010
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2. The challenge (inspired by the tracking of
Sales quota achievement or financial data)
 You have a set of compensation or HR
information about employees. This data is
tracked over time.
 It is not easy to get an idea of the trends for
each employee.
 Thankfully in Excel 2010 you can insert a
graph in a single cell, a little known feature
called “Sparklines”.
 This allows you to visualise the evolution of
the data over time for each employee.
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3. Select the Trend cell. Select Insert
at the top of the menu.
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4. Choose your style (line, column) and fill the popup:
select the data for the graph, and where to insert it.
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5. Click OK. The graph is created.
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6. Easily change the chart style by selecting
another one in Sparklines tools > design
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7. Have fun and adjust
 You can then “play” with options such as
 changing the colour of the sparkline,
 adding markers to make the highest, lowest, first
or last data point the most visible (and change its
colour), and
 shanging colours for the markers and the
sparkline
 You can make these changes to all sparklines
at once (select them all) or only on specific
sparklines by using Group or Ungroup
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8. An easy way to highlight trends into
your Compensation files.
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