- I have been reading Investment Biker, Freakonomics and No Comebacks. The last one by Frederick Fosyth, a short story collection. Investment Biker is a good books if you like travelogues, biking and investing in any order.
I have seen a ton of good movies recently including Blood Diamond, American History X and Schindler’s List. I am actually cursing myself for not watching both AHx and Speilberg’s classic till now. They have been lying in my HDD for almost 2 years now and finally I had the courage to double click on them last weekend (last night). AHx made sure that Edward Norton along with Ewan McGregor and DiCaprio will nicely fit the gap that earlier generation of brilliant actors like Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman left. - Most of my free time after office is spent with cooking or reading or browsing. I think my A75 is dusting, may be this month you will see some purnography after all those korean photos.
- We have booked an Activa last week. We are naming it “Manmadhudu”, after a popular telugu movie starring Nagarjuna. No specific reason. Temporarily I am shelving my thoughts of acquiring an Avenger. A 2-wheeler for everyone in the family is our priority now 🙂
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8 Responses to “Introducing PHD Sparkline Maker – Dead Simple way to Create Excel Sparklines”
This looks like it could be very useful for a project I'm putting together right now, thank you so much. Quick & silly question, how do I copy & paste the sparkline as a picture?
Question answered. For anyone else:
Select chart>Hold Shift key & select Edit/Copy Picture>Paste
[...] more information about PHD Sparkline Maker, please read this article and to learn more about Sparklines, read this article from Microsoft Excel 2010 blog. Also there [...]
Am I right in thinking that the y-axis is set automatically by excel?
That makes it possible to get the column chart not to start at zero.
Andy - yes, it is currently set to 'auto', which defaults to a zero base for positive values, but you can change that by left-clicking the chart, then choosing (in Excel 2007):
"Chart Tools/Layout/Axes/Primary Vertical Axis/More Primary Vertical Axis Options"
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: When manually editing a chart's minimum/maximum axis values, PLEASE be sure there's a valid reason and that doing so won't skew the message shown by the data (e.g. by exaggerating differences). If in doubt, go back and read Tufte. (W.W.T.D.?)
[...] gridlines, axis, legend, titles, labels etc.) and resize it so that it fits nicely in a cell [example]. This is the easiest and cleanest way to get sparklines in earlier versions of excel. However this [...]
thanks for the work creating the template!!!!
looks good