Besides charts, Excel 2007 offers many other ways to visually display quantitative data. The
new conditional formatting features, such as data bars, color scales, and icon sets allow you
to add visual elements to regular tables of numbers. In Figure I.3, you can easily see that
Ontario has the largest population and that Nunavut has the largest land area. You can add
in-cell data bars such as these with a couple mouse clicks, as described in Chapter 9,
“Presenting Data Graphically Without Charts.”
Figure I.3
In-cell data bars draw
the eye to the largest
values in each column.
This book also takes a look at tools that you can purchase to add functionality ...
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