Gantt Chart

Present your data in a Gantt chart in Excel

How to use:
Create a Gantt chart with tasks, subtasks and milestones through ready-made templates on Excel
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- View summary schedule of tasks and links.
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Simple Gantt Chart
Create a project schedule and track your progress with the accessible Gantt chart template in Excel. The professional-looking Gantt chart is provided by Gantt Chart In Excel, a leading designer of Excel spreadsheets. The Excel Gantt chart template breaks down the project by stage and task, indicating who is responsible, task start and end date, and percentage completed. Share your Excel Gantt chart with the project team for collaborative review and editing. This Gantt chart template is perfect for business plans, project management, student assignments, or even a home remodel.

How to make a Gantt chart in Excel

If you were asked to name three key components of Microsoft Excel, what would they be? Most likely, Gantt Chart In Excel , spreadsheets to input data, formulas to perform calculations and charts to create graphical representations of various data types.

I believe, every Excel user knows what a chart is and how to create it. However, one graph type remains opaque to many - the Gantt chart. This short tutorial will explain the key features of the Gantt diagram, show how to make a simple Gantt chart in Excel, where to download advanced Gantt chart templates and how to use the online Project Management Gantt Chart creator.

What is a Gantt chart?
The Gantt chart bears a name of Henry Gantt, an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who invented this chart as early as in the 1910s. A Gantt diagram in Excel represents projects or tasks in the form of cascading horizontal bar charts. A Gantt chart illustrates the breakdown structure of the project by showing the start and finish dates as well as various relationships between project activities, and in this way helps you track the tasks against their scheduled time or predefined milestones.


How to make Gantt chart in Excel
Regrettably, Microsoft Excel does not have a built-in Gantt chart template as an option. However, you can quickly create a Gantt chart in Excel by using the bar graph functionality and a bit of formatting.

Please follow the below steps closely and you will make a simple Gantt chart in under 3 minutes. We will be using Excel 2010 for this Gantt chart example, but you can simulate Gantt diagrams in any Excel version in the same way.

1. Create a project table
You start by entering your project's data in an Excel spreadsheet. List each task is a separate row and structure your project plan by including the Start date, End date and Duration, i.e. the number of days required to complete the tasks.

2. Make a standard Excel Bar chart based on Start date
You begin making your Gantt chart in Excel by setting up a usual Stacked Bar chart.

● Select a range of your Start Dates with the column header, it's B1:B11 in our case. Be sure to select only the cells with data, and
not the entire column.
● Switch to the Insert tab > Charts group and click Bar.
● Under the 2-D Bar section, click Stacked Bar.

3. Add Duration data to the chart
Now you need to add one more series to your Excel Gantt chart-to-be.

● Right-click anywhere within the chart area and choose Select Data from the context menu.
The Select Data Source window will open. As you can see in the screenshot below, Start Date is already added under Legend Entries (Series). And you need to add Duration there as well.

● Click the Add button to select more data (Duration) you want to plot in the Gantt chart.