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Invisible Text Formatting

Certain Excel tools, like data bars and icon sets, include native options to hide text from view. However, there’s a more flexible and universal technique to make text invisible using a custom number format (;;;).

In this demo, I’ll show you how this approach can be used with conditional color scales to visualize monthly temperature trends over time.

COMMON USE CASES:

  • Creating heatmaps to visualize data while obscuring underlying values
  • Transforming values into data bars or icon sets to visualize high-level patterns or trends

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