Using Conditional Formatting, Tables, and Sparklines in Excel 2010

Overview/Description
Excel 2010 provides tools that enable you to efficiently present your data and that can also make your data easier to understand. Tables can be used to logically present data in an easy to read fashion and table styles provide a way to make your workbooks more attractive and professional looking. Conditional formatting allows you to highlight trends and exceptions in cells or ranges of cells by presenting the identified data in a number of unique ways to make it stand out. Sparklines, a new feature of Excel 2010 are small charts within a cell that provide a visual representation of data and can be used to show trends in an appealing manner. These features – tables, styles, conditional formatting, and sparklines – how to access them and how to use them, are covered in this course.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Using Conditional Formatting, Tables, and Sparklines in Excel 2010

format data as a table

sort and filter table data in a given scenario

apply conditional formatting rules

recognize when to use specific conditional formats

use sparklines to show data trends

format sparklines

sort and filter table data

use conditional formats to highlight data

use sparklines to highlight trends in data