EXCEL 2010

WHATS NEW , CHANGED & REMOVED

SPARKLINES
These are small charts that can be shown inside a cell and are linked to data in other cells. You can insert a line chart, win-loss chart or column chart type of spark line in excel 2010. They add rich information analysis capability to mundane tables or dashboards.

KINDS OF SPARKLINES

LINE SPARKLINES

Like regular line graphs, line sparklines, can help you spot changes or trends in your data over time. They are useful when tracking or trying to spot such things as increases and decreases in sales over time or seasonal variations in temperature or precipitation. In the example, the line sparklines make it easy to compare the month to month fluctuations in sales revenue for the different types of cookies.

 COLUMN SPARKLINES
As with regular column charts, column sparklines are used to show amounts or the number of times a value occurs. Examples would be total sales amounts for different sales regions or inventory levels for one or more items. One thing to note is that, since sparklines are so small, even slight differences in data totals can appear as disproportionately large differences in the sparkline columns. The sparklines in the example make it easy to spot which quarter had the best sales for each cookie type.

 WIN/LOSS SPARKLINES
Win / loss sparklines show you whether your data is positive (a win) or negative (a loss). The sparkline displays these differences by placing positive data above the sparkline's X axis (zero line) negative & data below the X axis. The axis line is not shown, but it is situated in the middle of the cell. If you have a zero value in your data it is treated like a blank cell and no bar is displayed for that cell. A gap is left in the sparkline. In the example, the win / loss sparkline reflects the positive growth for the stock in the years 2007, 2008, and 2010 with green bars above the X axis. The loss in stock value in 2009 is shown by the red bar located below the X axis.

CONVERT EXCEL FILES TO PDF FORMAT

USING THE SHARE OPTION

USING THE EMAIL OPTION

SAVE EXCEL 2010 FILES TO PDF FORMAT

One of the new features in Excel 2010 is the ability to save Excel files to PDF format. A PDF file (Portable Document Format) allows others to view documents without needing the original program - like Excel installed on their computer. Instead, users can open the file with a free pdf reader program. A PDF file also allows you to let others view spreadsheet data without giving them the opportunity to change it.

SLICERS

Slicers are like visual filters. They are an easy way to slice and dice a pivot table

IMPROVED TABLES & FILTERS

When working with tables in Excel 2010, you can see the table filtering & sorting options even when you scroll down (the column headings A,B,C change to table headings) Also, in Excel 2010, data filters have a nifty search option to quickly search and filter values you want.

NEW SCREENSHOT FEATURE

Now, using Excel (or any other Office 2010 app) you can grab a screenshot of any open window. This could be very useful for those of us in teaching industry as you can quickly embed screenshots in to your teaching material (like slides or documents).

IMPROVED CONDITIONAL FORMATTING

Excel 2010 added a lot of simple but effect improvements to conditional formatting. One of my favorites is the ability to have solid fill in a cell based on the value in it. This provides an easy way to create in-cell bar charts.

CUSTOMIZE PIVOT TABLES QUICKLY

Now you can easily change pivot table summary type and calculation types from Pivot Table Options ribbon in a click. Also you can do what-if analysis on Pivots.

CUSTOMIZE ADD-INS FROMDEVELOPER RIBBON

CUSTOMIZE RIBBONS & DEFINE YOUR OWN RIBONS

In Excel 2007, if you want to customize or add a new add-in, you have to circumnavigate cape of good hope. But Excel 2010 makes it a pleasant experience again. There are two buttons, right on developer ribbon tab using which you can quickly add, change any add-ins.

One the most beautiful and powerful features about Office products is that you can customize them as you want. You could easily add menus, change labels, and define toolbars the way you like to work. It made us feel a little powerful and awesome. Then, for some reason, MS removed most of these customizations in Office 2007 leaving us frustrated and powerless. They restored some of that in Office 2010. In this version of office, you can easily add new ribbons or customize existing ribbons (by adding new groups of tools).

ONE FILE MENU TO RULE THEM ALL

One of the biggest changes in Excel 2007 is Office Button. It wasn t immediately clear for most of us, how we should save or work with existing files as everything was hidden behind the office button. Office 2010 rectified that problem beautifully by restoring File menu. But the engineers at MS didn t stop there. They also added a host of other powerful features to the file menu and branded it as backstage view .

PASTE PREVIEWS
There are a ton of cool paste features buried in the Paste Special Options in earlier versions of Excel. MS has bought all these to fore-front with Paste Previews feature in Office 2010.