

Select an empty cell or group of empty cells in which you want to insert one or more sparklines.In the following image, F2 contains a column sparkline and F3 contains a line sparkline.Ī sparkline in cell F6 shows the 5-year performance for the same stock, but displays a Win/Loss bar chart that shows only whether the year had a gain or a loss. To create a sparkline: Because sparklines show trends in a small amount of space, they are especially useful where you need to show a snapshot of data in an easy-to-understand visual format. They enable you to visually summarize trends alongside data. Sparklines are tiny charts that fit in a cell. The proper way to close backstage view is to press the Esc key or click any other ribbon with the mouse. The first panel works like a navigation bar, the second panel contains a variety of commands related to the choice from the first panel and the third panel provides a view of the additional settings related to the commands chosen in the second panel. Useful keyboard shortcuts are as follows: You can use this view to create new files, open existing files, save, send, protect, preview, and print files, set options for Excel, and more. When you open the File menu, Excel now fills 100% of your screen with a three panel backstage view.

However, this new File menu gives you access to something called “Backstage View”. In Excel 2010, Microsoft has reverted back to the File menu. In Excel 2007, Microsoft introduced the Office Icon button, which gave you access to most of the commands in the old File menu. The office icon button has been replaced by a file menu Your colleague can then import the file using the same Import/Export button. This creates a file which you can email to a colleague. You can also share your customisations with colleagues: to export your customisations, use the Import/Export button at the bottom of either the Customize Ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar pane of the Excel Options dialog box. The options in the Customize Ribbon dialog box are fairly self explanatory. To customise the ribbon, right-click on an existing ribbon tab, choose customise the ribbon from the menu. You can create custom ribbon tabs and groups and rename or change the order of the built-in tabs and groups. In Excel 2010, you can customize the ribbon, which is great news for modelers! You can now set up a perfect ribbon with a set of commands applicable for financial modeling purposes. Keyboard shortcut veterans found this really frustrating as this would slow down the modeling process! One of the major improvements in Excel 2010 is that this problem has been removed! You can now press ALT keyboard shortcuts at normal speed. For example, if you pressed the keyboard shortcut sequence ALT+E+S+T too quickly (or the same speed as Excel 2003), Excel 2007 would simply not register the shortcut and therefore not run the command. In Excel 2007, the ALT keyboard shortcuts were very slow.
