Customizing Sparklines in Excel

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In our previous blog post we have learned to insert Sparklines in excel. Now, we will go little advanced in this blog post and learn to customize the Sparklines. If you have not visited our blog post on inserting Sparklines in excel then please click here before proceeding for this blog post, as we are going to use the same data which we have used previously.

We have crated 03 types of Sparklines: Line, Column and Win/Loss as shown in below image.



To customize Sparklines in excel, we have to first enable the “Design” tab on the ribbon. Design tab will get enabled if and only if we click on the Sparklines. If we click on any portion where Sparklines are not created then Design tab will get disabled.


Once we click on the “Design Tab” then we can see the commands which are divided in various groups. In this blog post of “Customizing the Sparklines”, we will see all the commands “Show Group” which are highlighted with Pink color and the commands to change the “Sparkline Color” and “Marker Color” as highlighted with Brown color in below image.



Changing Sparkline Color:

1. To change the color of Sparklines, select the already crated Sparklines. This will enable Design tab which contains command “Sparkline Color” as highlighted in below image.



2. Click on “Sparkline Color” command and select the color of your own choice. In this example, we have selected color “Orange, Accent 6, Darker 25%”.



3. You can see the difference as compared to original data.



To Change Marker Colors:

1. Similarly, we can also change the Marker Colors. To change the Marker Colors, select the already crated Sparklines. This will enable Design tab which contains command “Marker Color” as highlighted in below image.



2. To change the Color of “Negative Points” of Sparklines, click on the option “Negative Points” under “Marker Color” and select the color of your own choice. In this example we have selected the Red color.



3. To change the Color of “Markers” of Sparklines, click on the option “Markers” under “Marker Color” and select the color of your own choice. In this example we have selected the Purple color.



4. To change the Color of “High Point” of Sparklines, click on the option “High Point” under “Marker Color” and select the color of your own choice. In this example we have selected the Green color.



5. To change the Color of “Low Point” of Sparklines, click on the option “Low Point” under “Marker Color” and select the color of your own choice. In this example we have selected the Yellow color.



6. To change the Color of “First Point” of Sparklines, click on the option “First Point” under “Marker Color” and select the color of your own choice. In this example we have selected the Brown color.



7. To change the Color of “Last Point” of Sparklines, click on the option “Last Point” under “Marker Color” and select the color of your own choice. In this example we have selected the Light Blue color.


Once we select all the colors for each Marker, we will now see how we can display all these markers in our Sparklines. All these options are available under “Show Group”.

Show Group:

Show group contains below listed 06 options:

High Point: It will highlight highest point of data in selected Sparkline group.

Low Point: It will highlight lowest point of data in selected Sparkline group.

First Point: It will highlight first point of data in selected Sparkline group.

Last Point: It will highlight last point of data in selected Sparkline group.

Negative Points: It will highlight all negative values from the selected Sparklines group.

Markers: This option will available only for “Line Sparklines”. It will highlight each point in the selected group of Line Sparklines.

Let’s learn one by one all these options.

High Point:

Select all the Sparklines for which we wish to show “High Point” and check the checkbox for High Point as shown in below image.



You can see the difference as compared to original data. Once we check the checkbox for the High Point, highest point of data in selected Sparkline group is highlighted with Green color.



Low Point:

Select all the Sparklines for which we wish to show “Low Point” and check the checkbox for Low Point as shown in below image.



You can see the difference as compared to original data. Once we check the checkbox for the Low Point, lowest point of data in selected Sparkline group is highlighted with Yellow color.



First Point:

Select all the Sparklines for which we wish to show “First Point” and check the checkbox for First Point as shown in below image.



You can see the difference as compared to original data. Once we check the checkbox for the First Point, first point of data in selected Sparkline group is highlighted with Brown color.



Last Point:

Select all the Sparklines for which we wish to show “Last Point” and check the checkbox for Last Point as shown in below image.



You can see the difference as compared to original data. Once we check the checkbox for the Last Point, last point of data in selected Sparkline group is highlighted with Light Blue color.



Negative Point:

Select all the Sparklines for which we wish to show Negative Points and check the checkbox for Negative Point as shown in below image.



You can see the difference as compared to original data. Once we check the checkbox for the Negative Point, all the negative points from selected Sparkline group are highlighted with Red color.



Marker:

Select all the Sparklines for which we wish to show Marker and check the checkbox for Marker as shown in below image.



You can see the difference as compared to original data. Once we check the checkbox for the Marker, it will highlight each point in the selected group of Line Sparklines with Purple color.



In this way, we can customize the Sparklines in Excel.
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