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Color Scales in a Pivot Table
Color Scales are new in Excel 2010 and they highlight the smallest and largest data points within your Pivot Table.
It works like a heat map, in that it gives the highest number a shade of color and the lowest number a different shade of color, so your numbers can stand out at one glance.
Download workbookColor-Scales.xlsx
STEP 1: Select the range of cells that you want to apply the Color Scale to
STEP 2: Go to Home > Styles > Conditional Formatting > Color Scales 
STEP 3: Now you have your Color Scale applied! Let us have some fun in the slicer above
STEP 4: Select any month in the slicer and your Color Scale will still be applied
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