Excel® 2013 VBA and Macros

17. Dashboarding with Sparklines in Excel 2013

In This Chapter

Creating Sparklines

Scaling Sparklines

Formatting Sparklines

Creating a Dashboard

Next Steps

One of the new features in Excel 2013 is the ability to create tiny, word-size charts, called sparklines. If you are creating dashboards, you will want to leverage these charts.

The concept of sparklines was first introduced by Professor Edward Tufte. Tufte promoted sparklines as way to show a maximum amount of information with a minimal amount of ink.

Microsoft supports three types of sparklines:

• Line—A sparkline shows a single series on a line chart within a single cell. On a sparkline, you can add markers for the highest point, the lowest point, the first point, and the last point. ...