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Sparklines are small, cell-sized charts that appear within your worksheet, giving readers a quick picture of what the numbers on the worksheet mean. Because sparklines stay with your data (unlike a chart, which might appear in a section of the worksheet some distance from the data it reflects), they show clearly the relationship among the data values used to create them. You can create three kinds of sparklines in Excel 2010. The program offers you the choice of line, column, or win/loss sparklines: Line sparklines show trends and changes in values over time. Column sparklines enable you to compare values. Win/loss sparklines enable you to analyze values in relation to a norm.
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Click in the Location Range field of the Create Sparklines dialog box, and then click the cell on the worksheet where you want the sparkline to appear. Click OK. The sparkline is added to the document. Click the elements in the Show/Hide group of the Sparkline Tools Design tab to customize the appearance of the sparkline you added. As you click your choices, new points are added to the examples in the Style gallery, as shown here:
10. Click the Sparkline Color arrow to display the palette and set the color of the sparkline. 11. Click the Marker Color arrow to choose the color of the markers displayed on the sparkline. 12. After you set the sparkline formatting options as you want them, you can copy and paste the sparklines to other cells in the worksheet. Excel will update the references to show the correct sparkline representation in the cell.