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Hey everybody and welcome back to Excel
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Wiz. In today's video, I'm going to show
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you how you can create a heat map in
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Excel just like the ones you can see
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here. One of them is going to have no
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values but with the color scales. The
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second one down here is the one where
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you have the color scales and you can
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see the values as well. So, let me show
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you how you can do this in less than 5
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minutes. Let's get started.
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I'm working with monthly sales
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performance by product category from
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January to December for different uh
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products. As you can see, I've got
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electronics, clothing, home and garden,
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sport, equipment, books and media,
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beauty and health. So, what we need to
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understand from this data is we want to
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know which month had the highest uh
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number of sales and which product that
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was it. As you can see, it's not easy to
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tell while you're looking at this data.
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But when we use our heat map, it's going
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to be very uh you're going to see this
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very easily. So, let's uh do this. The
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first step that you need to do,
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highlight or select all your data
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under styles, click on conditional
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formatting and then click on color
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scales and choose uh one of the colors
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that you want. See uh the first one
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green is the highest um and red yellow
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is the least but we don't want to work
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with that. Let's let's go and choose uh
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blue and red. So click on that. So once
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you click on it as you can see 398
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electronic electronics were sold for 398
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in December that was the highest and the
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list you can see the list is blue which
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is 56 and you can tell from the rest of
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the data. So if you only want to see the
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color scales without the values in it
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this is what you can also do. So uh
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select just select the values the values
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alone right click and
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click on format cells
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under category click on custom uh on
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general under type where we have general
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uh type in your three semicolons
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and click on okay. So once that's done
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as you can see all the values have
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disappeared and we only have the the
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color scales. So by using this data now
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you can read and see with the red being
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the highest and blue being the least you
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can tell which month and which products
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had the most sales and the least sales.
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So that's it. That's how you can create
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an heat map in Excel. If you have more
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questions, please feel free to leave it
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in the comment section. And if you have
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a specific video you want us to do,
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you very much for watching and see you
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again in the next video. Goodbye.
