Excel in-cell Graphing

Juice Analytics has an excellent post demonstrating how you can spiffy up a boring Excel spreadsheet with some nifty graphics to illustrate your numbers. Excel's repeat function can be used to repeat a font graphic, using the following syntax:

=REPT(text,number_of_times)

This is really nifty. When used properly, you can convert a boring Excel spreadsheet into something that is much easier to gleam information from and looks a heck of lot more pretty ... as in the example below.