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One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

Type your data or use existing data from your file. Highlight the range of cells containing your data. Then click the Insert tab and click the Insert Column or Bar Chart button. Click the Clustered ...

Follow the steps to make a Run Chart in Microsoft Excel: Run charts are used to monitor the performance of the process over time with a focus on process improvement; it displays the measurement of the ...

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