In the good old days of Multiplan there was a cell formatting function where
you could display the contents of a cell as text/number/date etc. AND as a
mini bar graph in the cell. It simply took the max in the column as the max
value and (as I recall) painted the cell from left to right as far as the
number in the cell reached, compared to the maximum value.
That was in fact a very nice way of getting a hold of data in large and
complicated tables. And if it could be done back then- it should be a piece
of cake to implement it these days.

So please get me the "bargraph" cell formatting option back into Excel.

Best regards / Ake

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The new version, "Excel 12", will have this feature.

To see what else is new:

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/default.aspx

Biff

"Ake" wrote in message
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In the good old days of Multiplan there was a cell formatting function
where
you could display the contents of a cell as text/number/date etc. AND as a
mini bar graph in the cell. It simply took the max in the column as the
max
value and (as I recall) painted the cell from left to right as far as the
number in the cell reached, compared to the maximum value.
That was in fact a very nice way of getting a hold of data in large and
complicated tables. And if it could be done back then- it should be a
piece
of cake to implement it these days.

So please get me the "bargraph" cell formatting option back into Excel.

Best regards / Ake

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