Editor’s note: This is the second installment in Ten Behind Office 2010, a series that features the Microsoft employees behind some of the new and updated features in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

How to highlight details for better insight with sparkline charts in Excel Your email has been sent The recent article, How sparklines deal with non-numeric values in Excel shows you how to avoid ...

Let’s say you are showing data to students and you want to talk about the changes in certain data over time. You can quickly highlight the trends by using sparklines, which are mini graphs of selected ...

The Quick Analysis menu won't replace everything you do in Excel, but it handles the repetitive stuff faster than navigating through ribbons. This shortcut eliminates most of the steps for you if you ...

Sparklines are word-sized charts that live in individual cells. This great feature was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized.

An curved arrow pointing right. Sparklines are word-sized charts that live in individual cells. This great feature was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized. Produced by ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sparklines are word-sized charts that live in individual cells. This great feature was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized. Follow BI Video ...

This week’s Gearhead discusses Sparklines, a powerful technique for communicating numeric information. Invented by Edward Tufte, the guru of information display, Sparklines are (in Tufte’s words): ...

At its core, the SPARKLINE function in Google Sheets takes a row of numbers and turns them into a mini chart that lives right inside a single cell. Instead of inserting a full-sized chart that eats up ...