Connect the before and after data points with a line.In the dialog box that opens, select whether you want to show.In the drop-down, select ‘Hidden & Empty Cells’ option.Click on the Edit Data option (click on the text part and not the icon of it).
Click the Design Tab (a contextual tab that becomes available only when you select the cell that has a sparkline). You can specify how you want these empty cells to be treated. Here is an example where there is a missing data point in a column sparkline. In the above dataset, the value for April is missing which creates a gap in the first sparkline. When you create a line sparkline with a dataset that has an empty cell, you will notice that the sparkline shows a gap for that empty cell. Edit Single Sparkline’s Data: Use this to change the data for the selected sparkline only.Ĭlicking on any of these options open the Edit Sparklines dialog box where you can change the data range. Edit Group Location & Data: Use this when you have grouped multiple sparklines and you want to change the data for the entire group (grouping is covered later in this tutorial). When you click on the Edit Data drop down, you get the following options: You can edit the data of an existing sparkline by using the Edit Data option. In this contextual tab, you’ll find all the customization option for the selected sparkline type.Įditing the DataSet of Existing Sparklines When you select a cell that has a Sparkline, you’ll notice that a contextual tab – Sparkline Tools Design – becomes available. While the above steps insert a basic sparkline in the cell, you can do some customization to make it better. To insert a ‘Column’ or ‘Win-loss’ sparkline, you need to follow the same above steps, and select Columns or Win-loss instead of the Line (in step 3). This will insert a line sparkline in cell G2. In the ‘Create Sparklines’ dialog box, select the data range (A2:F2 in this example). In the Sparklines group click on the Line option. Select the cell in which you want the sparkline. Here are the steps to insert a line sparkline in Excel: 
Let’s say that you want to insert a line sparkline (as shown below). Now let’s cover each of these types of sparklines and all the customizations you can do with it. In this tutorial, everything covered for column sparklines can also be applied to the win-loss sparklines. For example, if you’re plotting whether it rained in the past 7 days or not, you can plot a win-loss with 1 for days when it rained and -1 for days when it didn’t. It is better used in situations where the outcome is binary, such as Yes/No, True/False, Head/Tail, 1/-1, etc. Note: A Win-loss sparkline is just like a column sparkline, but it doesn’t show the magnitude of the value.
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We will see how to do this for each sparkline type later in this tutorial.
You can customize these sparklines – such as change the color, add an axis, highlight maximum/minimum data points, etc. While you have sparkline in a cell, you can also enter a text in it. If you change the cell height or width, the sparkline would adjust accordingly. Sparklines size is dependent on the size of the cell. This makes it a useful tool to use when creating Excel dashboards. When the underlying dataset changes, the sparkline would automatically update. Sparklines are dynamic and are dependent on the underlying dataset. Here are a few important things to know about Excel Sparklines: The first one in G2 is a line type sparkline, in G3 is a column type and in G4 is the win-loss type. In the below image, I have created an example of all these three types of sparklines. 
In Excel, there are three types of sparklines: These reside in a cell as the background of that cell. Unlike regular charts, Sparklines are not objects. Despite that, Sparklines are great as you can create these easy to show a trend (and even outliers/high-low points) and make your reports and dashboard more reader-friendly. While Sparklines are tiny charts, they have limited functionality (as compared with regular charts in Excel). You can use these sparklines to make your bland data look better by adding this layer of visual analysis. These charts are used to show a trend over time or the variation in the dataset. Sparklines are tiny charts that reside in a cell in Excel. Editing the DataSet of Existing Sparklines.
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