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Pro tip: Data bars with invisible text

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Pro tip: Data bars with invisible text

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- [Instructor] Okay, while we're on the topic of conditional formatting, there's one pro tip that I just have to share with you guys. And it's using a combination of data bars with an invisible text effect to create a really nice visualization. So first things first, let's go ahead and clear these flags that we had set in the last lecture. And what I want to do here is pull in a second instance of gross revenue. So even though it's already inserted into the pivot, I can just drag that field again and create a second instance of revenue. And the reason I'm going to do this is because I'd like to have one column that continues to just show me the raw values themselves on their own and a second version of the column to treat purely as my visualization column. So like I showed you in the last lecture, I could just select the values, go into conditional formatting, and add data bars here. That works okay, my problem with this is that I don't like the overlap between the numbers and the…

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