How to create a Pareto chart for quality control/project management purposes using Openoffice.org in 5 easy steps

1. CREATING PARETO CHARTS With OpenOffice.org 3.0

2. What is a Pareto Chart A quality management tool To visualize the most common sources of defects, customer complaints, the highest occuring type of defects, etc ... etc ...

3. Why use Openoffice.org ? Most of the (expensive) project mgmt Softwares provide tools to create Pareto charts. However, you might not have access to those while you need to visualize your data; OpenOffice.org == free OpenOffice.org == cross platform OpenOffice.org == open standards OpenOffice.org == a wise choice

4. Here we go ! Make a table

5. Step two Select your data

6. Step three Click the graph button

7. Step four Select the ‘Column and Line’ type And click FINISH !

8. Step five Done ! Beautify to taste and blow your fellow PM’s away with your quick, free and easy Pareto chart.