Sparklines are in-cell charts in Microsoft Excel that are easy to create and extremely helpful, but they can be more insightful with just a few specific settings.

Simple to create, sparklines are tiny graphs that help you make sense of data at a glance.

Calculating the trend for row data and placing the visualization in single excel is really a great feature to use. In order to create your own Sparklines, select the range of data.

Editor’s note: This is the second installment in Ten Behind Office 2010, a series that features the Microsoft employees behind some of the new and updated features in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.