“Adulting” means getting excited to learn a new Excel trick. If you wanna impress your peers with some Excel wizardry, add sparklines to your data. (For the uninitiated, a sparkline is a simple visualization tool that will make you look like you’re the Dumbledore of dataviz.)
Sparklines use mini line, column, or win/loss charts within a cell to visually represent trends in data. In the example above, I added a line chart to the data to visually represent the trend of each employee’s sales by month. So to add a line sparkline to your own data, navigate to the Insert tab and select Line under Sparklines. Once the Sparkline dialog box opens, insert the data range of the cells you want to visually represent and hit OK. Now, simply drag the sparkline down the column to insert one for each row.
