ERROR BARS ON CHARTS

Does anybody know of a simple method to add error bars to the charts in Numbers or KeyNote. without error bars, graphs really do not tell us anything. The only way that I can see to add error bars is to draw them on manually, which is rather tedious. I know that this is not a full blown graphing package, but error bars seem to be an easy thing to implement. Is there some hidden feature that I cannot find.. please tell me so. If not, Apple team, please add this in the next release! This is such a useful feature.
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Got about 500 hits when I searched for Error Bars in the Numbers topic. This was the first one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5639404&#5639404
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