Create sparklines

- [Instructor] You can use standard Excel charts…and pivot chars to summarize large data collections quickly.…However, you might not always want to summarize…a huge range of data or to have your chart…take up a lot of space in your dashboard.…In this movie, I will show you how to create…sparklines, which are word-sized charts…invented by designer Edward Tufte.…I'll demonstrate how to create sparklines…using the Sparkline Excel workbook.…You can find it in the Chapter One folder…of your Exercise Files collection.…I have an Excel table on this workbook's single worksheet,…and it has monthly revenue data…for January through December of a year.…

It also has a quota target…and how the hotel in this case…performed as a comparison to the target.…I could summarize this data using…a standard chart, but let's say that I am constrained…in the amount of space I can use,…and I want the visual summary to appear…in a single worksheet cell.…I can do that using a sparkline.…I'll start by clicking the cell…where I want the sparkline to appear.…