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Old August 14th, 2009, 09:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
Mike Middleton[_2_]
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School Nut -

The Analysis ToolPak add-in is available with Excel. If it is installed in
Excel 2007, the Data Analysis item appears on the Data ribbon. If not, run
setup to install it from the Office/Excel disk.

However, the Pareto feature of the Analysis ToolPak's Histogram tool is not
very useful because the raw data for the input range must be numeric. Raw
data for a Pareto chart is often text descriptions of causes of defects, and
the Histogram tool will not count the occurrences of non-numeric data.

Instead, you can use the COUNTIF worksheet function to obtain frequencies
for text data. Then you can construct a Column chart (vertical bars).

Or, you can use an Excel template. Use Google to search for "excel pareto
chart" (without the quotes).

- Mike

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"School Nut" School wrote in message
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I'm trying to find the Data Analysis Tool Add-In for Excel 2007. Is this
a
software you need to purchase?

I already have Datalysis, MegaStat, etc.

This one is to do Pareto charts.