What are the benefits of SparkLines and Slicers in Excel 2010 (beta)?

Sparklines, which are small charts that have little or no additional formatting, summarize data in a compact space. They're often used in dashboards to provide context for another measure, such as a "red-yellow-green" lights used to indicate whether a measure is in the good, acceptable, or bad range at the moment.

Slicers provide a visual summary of a PivotTable filter. Users who have a hard time remembering which items are excluded by the current filter can glance at the slicer to see what's in and what's out. They're most useful for presentations where you have ample screen real estate and are speaking to users who prefer visual representations of data over strictly numeric displays.



Curt

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