Over the past 3 weeks we have been able to showcase some Excellent Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats and Hacks from some of the best excel practitioners on the planet.
These Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats and Hacks were published in the following posts:
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Microsoft MVP Edition
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Chandoo.org Excel Ninja Edition
Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats & Hacks – Notable Excel Sites Edition
But now it is your turn !
Next week we will be highlighting what is Your favorite Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats and Hacks.
These will be compiled and published with worked examples this time next week together with your name and any other details you want included.
You can either:
- Leave a comment below with your tip and details;
- Start a Conversation with me in the Chandoo.org Forums, or
- Email me directly to: ihuitson at gmail dot com.
All Excel Tips, Tricks, Cheats and Hacks posted in the comments of the above 3 posts will automatically be included:
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