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Colors to highlight data

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Colors to highlight data

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- [Instructor] First we'll look at some impartial highlighting. So what do I mean by impartial? This is when we want to show that there's something interesting in the data. We're not necessarily saying whether the highlighting is a good thing or a bad thing, we're not making a judgement call of what the data's showing us. Essentially, we don't really care whether it's good or bad, just that it's something that we wanna highlight and draw somebody's attention to. In this example we're gonna look in this workbook at some impartial highlighting. In this sheet we've got Sub-Category and Sales. Now we want to highlight the Art section, the Chairs section, and the Storage section together, because we're interested in how these sales compare to all of the others. To do that we're gonna select those three rows in our data. So we're gonna do a Cmd + Shift on Art and Chairs and Storage. We're then gonna select this paperclip to group them together. So a couple of things have happened here…

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