I apologize for bringing this up since I know it was brought up before
(http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6277
, http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=18204) but I adding a
histogram chart option to the chart wizard make sense to me.

I know the functionality is there using FREQUENCY() and a bar graph, but this is
not intuitive enough for most users/occasions where you have a listing of
data/grades and want to see a distribution.  I think MS Excel won against Lotus
123 because it was more intuitive to use for the naive user, and I think Excel
and OOoCalc are guilty of taking a common and simple graph and making it a pain
to create.

I usually end up exporting information in a CSV file to MATLAB for plotting as a
histogram.  I can't believe my primary use of MATLAB is for plotting histograms,
and that I'm not the only one who does this.  There is a macro for OOoCalc
created by Andy Lewis that creates a histogram available
(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ooomacros/BoxPlotsHistograms_1-0.zip?download)
but it does not handle alphanumeric's (A+,A,A-,B+,etc).

I know this may seem like a pointless request because the functionality is
already there, but I must repeat that it is not intuitive enough for most users.
  I wouldn't mind becoming familiar with OOo development to add such a useful
feature.

Thanks