Gantt Chart Excel: automated Gantt chart template
Plug in your tasks and dates and get a professional Gantt chart in minutes. Gantt Excel is a fully automated Gantt chart template built inside Microsoft Excel, so everyone on your team already knows how to use it.
What is a Gantt chart?
A Gantt chart shows a project’s tasks as bars along a timeline. Each bar starts and ends on the task’s dates, so you can see at a glance what happens when, what overlaps, who is doing it and how far along it is. Our guide What is a Gantt chart? covers the history and the parts of a chart in more detail.
Why build your Gantt chart in Excel
Project management means juggling deadlines, people and surprises. A Gantt chart lines all of that up on one timeline. Building it in Excel means there is nothing new for the team to learn and nothing to subscribe to: the plan is a file you own and can send to anyone.
Gantt Excel does the parts that are tedious by hand. You enter tasks and dates in a form, and it draws the bars, links dependent tasks, marks milestones and tracks progress against deadlines.
Benefits of Gantt charts
Coordination
Sequencing tasks stops anyone being overloaded, and big assignments get broken into smaller pieces.
Communication
Update the chart instead of calling a meeting. Everyone sees the same status, wherever they work.
Time management
You can see how a small delay early on pushes everything after it.
Clarity
Tasks, owners and dates sit on one visual timeline, so there is no room for “I thought you were doing that”.
Flexibility
When plans change, move a bar and see what moves with it.
Accountability
Every task has an owner and a date, so progress and slippage are both visible.
More in the benefits of Gantt charts in project management.
Gantt chart templates for every kind of project
- Construction Gantt chart template for building and renovation schedules
- Project plan template for a structured plan from kick-off to handover
- Project management template with resources, costs and a dashboard
- Hourly Gantt chart for events and short projects
- Project dashboards for reporting progress to stakeholders
Download the free Gantt chart template from ganttexcel.com. It works in Excel on Windows and Mac.
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