New for Excel 2010: Sparklines!

Guest blogger Sam Radakovitz, program manager for Excel, has a post today on a sparklines, a new feature in Excel 2010.

For Excel 2010 we've implemented sparklines, "intense, simple, word-sized graphics", as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence.  Sparklines help bring meaning and context to numbers being reported and, unlike a chart, are meant to be embedded into what they are describing. 

As you can see, I'm really excited about this new version of Excel, and specifically speaking: sparklines!  Bill Jelen, aka Mr. Excel, and Mike Girvin (Excel is Fun) are as excited as me in this video highlighting sparklines in Excel:

This video shows you how sparklines were born into Excel and how they look:

 

…and you know I think sparklines are awesome, but you can download the Office 2010 Beta and take a look for yourself!

-- Sam Radakovitz, Program Manager, Excel

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  • I like Office 2010. It works well downloading from the net.

  • Love it!!!!!

    I've been exporting my data to a txt file, uploading rows one at a time into a javascript sparkline creator website, then copying and pasting the images into a cell in excel.  No kidding it's not efficient. This is really really great.

    sparklines built into Excel are sick. in a good way.

  • i like 2010 exel

  • I like office 2010 ,i was bought it ,i still peforming  my all exams papersof  biology  by office  word 2010 to my students ,but i hope to provide more pictures about animals,thank you very much.

  • Is it possible to use Sparklines inside a pivot table ?

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