Author: Oscar Cronquist Article last updated on October 04, 2018

A win/loss sparkline is a visual representation of a data series in only one cell, the image above shows a blue column if the corresponding value is positive, nothing if zero and a red column if the value is negative.

How to build

  1. Press with mouse on a cell where you want the sparkline.
  2. Go to tab "Insert" on the ribbon.
  3. Press with left mouse button on "Win/Loss sparkline" button to open the "Create Sparklines" dialog box.
  4. Select the cell range that contains the data.
  5. Press with left mouse button on OK button.
  6. Press and hold with left mouse button on the dot shown in the above image, then drag down as far as necessary to create sparklines for each data series.