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Excel 2007 Multi-color Data Bars

Excel 12 (part of the upcoming Office 2007) will feature some very nice business intelligence tools including dashboarding functions. Check out this post describing the new “Data Bar” format http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2006/02/24/538875.aspx. The idea of a data bar is to have a background that is partially filled and is relative to the other values. As explained: “The Excel 2007 UI allows you to choose whatever colour you want for your data bars, but, by default, all the data bars you apply to a range have to be the same colour.  Someone on our team recently showed me how to use a tiny bit of VBA to simulate having multiple colours of data bars on a range conditionally applied, so I thought I would pass along the trick.”

Default is one color:

Excel 12 Data Bars 

The post describes how to get the much desired red/green/yellow effect:

Red/Green/Yellow Data Bar 

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