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I recently saw two (!) of these tables within the same week:

In this tutorial, you’ll see a few ideas for transforming tables with check marks.

These tiny tweaks can be accomplished in everyday software like Excel.

What’s Inside

0:00 Intro
0:18 The “before” version
1:05 Decluttered
1:38 Left-aligned text for speed-reading
1:57 X’s into checks with built-in checkmarks
3:05 Filled vs. empty squares (with Webdings g and c)
4:48 Dark vs. light circles (with Webdings n)
5:47 Showing totals with tallies at the bottom
6:10 Showing totals with tallies at the right with countif, concatenation, and rept
6:48 Bars or stacked bars
6:59 The before-after transformation

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