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How to add up\down arrow in excel..

Excel is a sea of very useful and compelling features. You just need to give proper time to explore and operate it in the best possible way. Here I am going to demonstrate how to portray your percentage data in excel in a way that not only looks professional but also, a great way to impress your colleague and boss with your reporting skills. 

Let’s begin:

Below is the sample table which we are carrying here to demonstrate this tool to you

So, in this data table, in the 'Difference' column we want to exhibit increase\decrease arrows to show if the sales went above the defined target or down.


Step 1. Go to the 'Insert' tab from the menu and select 'Symbols' from the right side. ( Refer to the below image)


Step 2. A new dialogue box will appear with multiple options. Just choose required titles as shown in the below image and add both up & down arrows to your excel sheet. (Refer to the below image)



Once the selection is complete, add both the symbols one by one by clicking the 'Insert'  button from the bottom. Press the 'Cancel' button from the bottom once done.

Step 3. Before we proceed further, select, and copy both the symbols first.


Step 4. Now go your data and select an entire data columns for which you want to add these up\down arrows and right-click. Select 'Format Cells' from the list of options in the next window. 

For instance, in our example, we want to insert these to our E (Difference column) to show the percentage of sales target difference if it was positive or negative (Refer to the below image)



Step 4. In the next window, go the 'custom' and choose 0.00% from the options available under Type Tab and paste both copied symbols prior to that just like we did in the below image.


Step 5. Now add a semicolon after 0.00% and cut (CTRL + X) down arrow from the initial and paste (CTRL + V) it after the semicolon. Once this is done, you need to add correspondence colors against each arrow between [ ] brackets. Follow the below image: 


In the above screenshot, I have commanded that all the minus ( - ) values in the data table should be considered as down and others must be up. So, all the negative percentage values would appear as red with a down arrow and positive ones as green with the up arrow.

Step 6. After you are done with these entries, press ok. Your data will be updated as the below image as you were anticipating.

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