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Heat Maps with Color Scales

Would you believe me if I told you that one of my all-time favorite visuals in Excel doesn’t involve a single chart, object, or number? I hope so, because that would be a very strange thing to lie about.

This tip is all about using conditional color scales and custom number formats to create an incredibly simple — yet highly effective — heat map visual in Excel.

COMMON USE CASES:

  • Quickly identifying patterns or trends using common color scales
  • Highlighting “hot spots” or outliers based on the colors alone

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