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Software development: How to prepare innovative excel charts to impress client during their visit?

some thing like reduction of resources used in the project life cycle. OR the development is on schedule OR something like that to impress the client. The charts are to be prepared in excel or anyother simple reporting tool....i am not a programmer, but a technical writer. can anyone please guide me?

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1. All you would need to do is put the numbers in a table in excel - like this Week # Resources 1 120 2 140 3 115 4 100 5 90 and so on. Then you select all these cells and click the Graph icon on top. Select the type of graph you want - and you have it! You can also tweak some options, but you will learn pretty quickly enuff.
2. The best way is to try, type in your values and go to Insert > Chart and the wizard will guide you. You should have there some other advanced chart types, use one of them and go XLMan