Create Gantt Charts in Excel

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Gantt Chart Excel is everyone’s new favorite project management

software with the ability to create Gantt Charts in minutes.
We all love Microsoft Excel and we use it almost every day for
everything – from a simple calculator to tracking massive projects.
There’s just one thing that Excel is not good at and that is creating
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Gantt charts. In fact a lot of users on the internet search for “How
to Create a Gantt Chart in Excel?”.
For this reason, we created Gantt Excel, an automated excel
template that allows you to create professional-looking Gantt
Charts all within Microsoft Excel.
Example of a Gantt Chart created in Excel
Create Gantt Charts in Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel

2013, Excel 2016 & Excel 2019
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Gantt Excel – Quick Start Guide
1. OPEN THE GANTT CHART TEMPLATE
Download the Gantt Excel template if you haven’t done so already.

Open the template. The enable macros prompt will automatically
show up. Click on the Enable Macros & Enable Editing button.
Note that there is no installation. It’s just a simple excel template
and it opens just like any other excel file.
The Gantt Menu tab in the excel ribbon will instantly load (see
image below).
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2. CREATE A NEW GANTT CHART
Click on the Add New Gantt Chart button to bring up the Project
Details window.
Enter the Project Name, Worksheet Name, Project Lead and

the Estimated/ Baseline Budget for the Project.
You can also use Gantt Excel to track project budget and task
costs.
Click the Ok button when done.
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A brand new gantt chart with the gantt timeline is created for you.
By default, a task is added with the start date set to today.
Gantt charts don’t give useful information unless they include all of
the tasks/ milestones needed for a project to be completed.
So, to start, list all of the activities as tasks. There are three ways to
add tasks in Gantt Chart Excel
Method 1: Type directly in the excel grid. If you type a task where
it says “Type here to add a new task“, it will automatically create a
new task with default start and end dates and the timeline will
instantly update.
Method 2: Click the Add Task button on the Gantt tab
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The task details form will open up where you can enter all the task
details including task resource, estimated, baseline, actual – start
and end dates. You can also keep track of costs
including estimated, baseline and actual costs, therefore making it
an excellent budget and costs planner.
Task notes can also be captured to include a short description of
the task to clarify its purpose or scope and to provide additional info
to everyone involved.
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Click the Ok button when done. The newly added task will show up
in the excel grid with all the details.
Go ahead and add a few tasks as in the example below and set the
start and finish dates.
4. SET PARENT AND CHILD TASKS
If a task is relatively large and requires several users with different

skills to manage, break the task into subtasks and create parent-
child relationships.
To set parent-child relationships, select a task that you want to
convert to a child task and click on the Make Child button.
Shortcut – Alt + Right arrow key
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To create a parent task from a child task click on the Make

Parent button.
Shortcut – Alt + Left arrow key

As a result, when you group child tasks together under a parent,
values such as dates, costs etc. aggregate and roll up to the parent
task.
This is how the tasks look when I set a few tasks as child tasks.
Milestones help your team stay on track and to more accurately

determine whether or not your project is on schedule.
To add a milestone click on the Add Milestone button on the Gantt
tab.
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This will bring up the Add Milestone details window. Enter the
milestone details and click the Ok button when done.
To illustrate, see the example below. The milestone and a diamond-
shaped symbol show up in the timeline.
Click on the Setup Timeline button in the Gantt Menu. Set the Start
and End Date of the timeline that you would like to see.
Gantt Excel uses these dates for all the views of the timeline.
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7. SETUP GANTT CHART RESOURCES
Click on the Resources button in the Gantt Menu.

You can create as many resources and assign them to the tasks.
You can also add Holidays and Non-working days in the Resource
window. The Holidays and Non-working days will be considered
while calculating end dates.
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8. GANTT CHART EXCEL SETTINGS
Equally important, is to set up the Gantt chart correctly. Let’s look at

all the settings screens and go through them one by one.
Click on the Settings icon on the Gantt tab.
Display Settings
By default, the Display tab opens up first. Here you can set the
general theme colors including the different timeline bar and
milestone colors.
You can also choose to show additional timeline bars
for baseline, actual dates and the overdue bar for all overdue tasks.
Lastly, one of the most sought out features is to show text within the
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Gantt Bars. You can check the Enable Text Display option
and select any text from any column to show within the Gantt bars.
This is how it looks when the Show Text in Gantt Bars is enabled.
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We think it is one of the finest features of Gantt Chart Excel.
General Settings
Switch over to the General tab to setup cost and date calculations,
currency symbol, and the Date format.
Additionally, you can define how the Percentage complete is
calculated for the tasks. You can use the Manual or Automatic
mode for entry and use Simple or Weighted calculation for the
Parent task roll-up calculation.
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Columns Settings
Finally, we have the columns tab where you can hide or unhide
existing columns. You can also insert up to ten custom columns or
delete them if required.
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GANTT CHART EXCEL – THE SMART WAY TO PLAN
In Conclusion, the beauty of Gantt Chart Excel is we have six

calendar views to choose from
namely Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly
View.
From here you can easily customize the Gantt chart by

changing timeline colors, and adding various details like percent
complete, costs etc… As shown below, with some tweaks you can
create a timeline that’s sure to impress.
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Gantt Charts in Excel - Made Super Easy
Manage your project timeline, tasks and workload like a Pro.
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Create Gantt Charts in Excel. Free

Step-by-Step Gantt Chart Tutorial for Making a Gantt

Gantt Chart Excel is everyone’s new favorite project management

Example of a Gantt Chart created in Excel

Create Gantt Charts in Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel

Gantt Excel – Quick Start Guide

1. OPEN THE GANTT CHART TEMPLATE

Download the Gantt Excel template if you haven’t done so already.

2. CREATE A NEW GANTT CHART

Enter the Project Name, Worksheet Name, Project Lead and

4. SET PARENT AND CHILD TASKS

If a task is relatively large and requires several users with different

Shortcut – Alt + Right arrow key

To create a parent task from a child task click on the Make

Shortcut – Alt + Left arrow key

Milestones help your team stay on track and to more accurately

7. SETUP GANTT CHART RESOURCES

Click on the Resources button in the Gantt Menu.

8. GANTT CHART EXCEL SETTINGS

Equally important, is to set up the Gantt chart correctly. Let’s look at

We think it is one of the finest features of Gantt Chart Excel.

GANTT CHART EXCEL – THE SMART WAY TO PLAN

In Conclusion, the beauty of Gantt Chart Excel is we have six

From here you can easily customize the Gantt chart by

Gantt Charts in Excel - Made Super Easy

Manage your project timeline, tasks and workload like a Pro.

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