Sparklines are in-cell charts in Microsoft Excel that are easy to create and extremely helpful, but they can be more insightful with just a few specific settings.

You can quickly highlight the trends by using sparklines, which are mini graphs of selected data. In the Excel screenshot below, for example, the sparklines in Column F are mini line graphs showing ...

You might not have noticed some of the useful Excel features like Sparklines, Slicers, Conditional Formatting, and other formulas which add value to your work.

Next, create the column and line sparkline charts you want to overlay, as suggested in the screenshot below. Continue by highlighting the first sparkline line chart (cell H7 in this example) and ...

Sparklines are going to be great for taking that huge data set, bringing it down into a nice cell, and being able to stick that into any reports or dashboards that you have. News Center: What will be ...