With the awesome power of sparklines, you can condense 20 PowerPoint slides into one. And what's more, Excel 2010 can do it for you. Let's take a look at an example.

VIDEO: Adding mini charts in the cells of your spreadsheet is great feature, which was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized.

You can quickly highlight the trends by using sparklines, which are mini graphs of selected data. In the Excel screenshot below, for example, the sparklines in Column F are mini line graphs showing ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sparklines are word-sized charts that live in individual cells. This great feature was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized. Follow BI ...

Next, tidy up the appearance of your text. Stick to clean, professional fonts like Calibri, Arial, or Times New Roman, and use consistent sizes—say 12pt for headers and 11pt for all other text. Align ...

Just the other day, we saw Microsoft add a new feature that explained Excel formulae, so if you were ever given a sheet with equations that you can't understand (or you have no memory of ever ...