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Excel Sparklines - Office 2010 | DataSafeXL Blog — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:21:22 +0000

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By: Alex Kerin

Alex Kerin — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:38:18 +0000

Something I didn’t pick up on before is that publishing Excel documents to the web through docs.com or Sharepoint Services causes shapes to not be shown. Therefore any add-in (S4E included) that creates shapes to depict the charts cannot be used in this way.

The Excel 2010 sparklines are not shapes, so do show in the online versions. If you are thinking about deploying to the web, then you may be limited to using 2010 sparklines, and creating other charts in the creative ways shown on this website.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:04:16 +0000

Gerald -

People are not trained on the use of Excel formulas. They get used to hitting the big Sigma button to enter a formula, with the result that all formulas are included in =SUM(). For example: =SUM(A1+A2).

By: Gerald Higgins

Gerald Higgins — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:43:08 +0000

A little off topic, but I had to laugh when Fabrice mentioned the users who use SUM(A1:A2).
What about those who use SUM(A1) ? There are plenty of those too ! :-)

By: What are Excel Sparklines & How to use them? - Introduction to Sparklines in Excel

Tue, 18 May 2010 08:59:56 +0000

[...] One of the most popular alternative to Excel Sparklines is a free and open source add-in called as Sparklines for Excel or SfE. SfE is a really powerful and adds a ton of more features than what is supported by Excel 2010’s Sparklines. However, since it is an add-in, one should install it before enjoying the features. Here is a detailed comparison between SfE and Sparklines in Excel 2010. [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:07:56 +0000

Sam -

Perhaps, but Tufte defined sparklines as “word-sized” graphs, and a bar by itself, though word sized, doesn’t make much of a graph.

If you mean it’s another type of graph integrated into the worksheet, sure.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:24:31 +0000

“Solid fill” data bars in 2010 can also be considered as “Sparklines” type.

By: DaleW

DaleW — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:34:17 +0000

Clearly Microsoft is offering only a very limited implementation of Sparklines with Excel 2010.

As a happy BonaVista MicroCharts customer, I would have loved if this Excel Sparklines review could have included the two current premium commercial contenders as well: BonaVista and Bissantz. Both use freely distributable custom fonts to create their Sparklines, which seems like a very elegant solution to me. Both of these companies also could be considered Davids compared to Microsoft.

Fabrice clearly has created a very impressive open source implementation, worth a look by anyone interested in using Sparklines in Excel.

Nevertheless, I believe BonaVista still offers the best Excel Sparklines available, considering ease of use and functionality and stability (since under XL2003 I struggled with an earlier version of SfE — although others may have different experiences).

By: Alex Kerin

Alex Kerin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:55:13 +0000

Fabrice: all great points, and I don’t think I made the point strongly enough – SfE is fantastic, especially considering the resources that are available to both parties…

Perhaps I could help you on some of the UI improvements (not the coding unfortunately, just the look). Thanks again, enjoy your new addition.

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