Gantt Excel - Free Gantt Chart Excel Template
Create Professional-looking Gantt Charts in Excel
Gantt Excel is fully automated and is super easy to use.
Gantt charts, zero learning curve. It’s Microsoft Excel after all. Instant familiarity, instant productivity.
Gantt Excel allows you to visualize and track every step of your project, from start to finish.
You can create tasks, link them using dependencies, and then track their progress against deadlines and milestones.
Compatible with all versions of Microsoft Excel.
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FEATURES
Gantt Excel Ribbon
Add gantt charts, tasks, and milestones with ease, using Gantt Excel’s dedicated Ribbon menu.
Daily & Hourly Planner
Gantt Excel: Daily and Hourly versions for granular task scheduling.
Leverage Gantt Excel’s core strength: seamless auto-scheduling that intelligently updates dates based on task dependencies.
Project Dashboard - Free Add-on
You heard right! The Project Dashboard is a free add-on to our Gantt Excel Template. With a single click, it instantly analyzes your project plan, generating a powerful dashboard to communicate key details based on your project timeline.
Costs Module – Account for Project Costs
Gantt Excel also serves as a budget and expenses tracker, allowing you to monitor project costs within your Gantt chart.
Milestones
Add Milestones to your Gantt Chart: Keep your team on track and assess project progress with ease. Plus, create dedicated milestone charts for key presentations and client updates.
Task Progress Indicators
Visually track the progress of every task directly on your Gantt chart.
Instantly switch between Gantt Views
Visualize your project across six distinct calendar views: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly, and Yearly.
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Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly
Half-Yearly
Yearly
We stand alone. No other Gantt chart template or online tool provides our six calendar views, plus an exclusive Hourly View for our Hourly Planner.
Hourly View
Break down large tasks into manageable subtasks by setting parent-child relationships. This helps you effectively manage complex projects involving multiple users and diverse skill sets.
Resource Module
Assign resources to tasks and track their costs directly in Gantt Excel. Easily configure holidays and non-working days for each resource, ensuring accurate scheduling and cost projections.
Display custom text directly within Gantt bars for instant project understanding, providing the perfect level of detail at a glance.
Intuitive Forms to Add Tasks & Milestones in the Gantt Chart
Our task form gives you a complete overview, instantly showing assigned resources and dependent tasks.
Track Baseline, Estimated and Actual Dates
Monitor your project’s progress against original plans, current estimates, and real-world results.
Highlight Overdue Tasks
Quickly identify any overdue tasks in your project schedule, highlighted in red (or your chosen color), ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
Customize the Gantt Timeline Bars
Colors are powerful visual cues in Gantt charts, and with Gantt Excel, you have complete control. Fully customize your project timeline colors to create a visually striking chart that truly stands out and impresses.
Export & Share
Export your Gantt Chart to PDF or to XLSX to share with your colleagues and clients.
Click below to see a Gantt Chart created in Gantt Excel and exported to PDF.
Gantt Chart in PDF
Click below to see a Gantt Chart created in Gantt Excel and exported to XLSX.
Gantt Chart in XLSX
Gantt Charts Made Super Easy
Manage your Project Timeline, Tasks and Workload like a Pro.
“Hands down, Gantt Excel is the best alternative to Microsoft Project. It truly is an Excel template on steroids – delivering powerful results with incredible ease. The best project management tool ever, full stop.” — Tony Smith, Project Manager
Reviews From Around The Globe
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People everywhere love Gantt Excel and we thrive off their feedback.
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“This is a fantastic tool—a superb alternative to Microsoft Project for creating Gantt charts. A++” — Marty E. (CA, United States)
“Gantt Excel is an incredibly well-designed project planning tool that I rely on constantly. The support and delivery are fast and professional, making it a truly reliable solution. @GanttExcel: you’ve earned a loyal user!” — Camiel, Limburg
“This Gantt chart is a game-changer! The ability to simply update one date and have everything else flow seamlessly is incredible, especially with ever-changing timelines—it’s a massive time-saver. Plus, their team is incredibly responsive. I highly recommend Gantt Excel and their fantastic product!” — Mariana, DC, United States
“Gantt Excel saved the day and absolutely blew me away! I needed a simple, intuitive Excel Gantt chart to quickly communicate project status to stakeholders who prefer Excel. After trying others, Gantt Excel far exceeded my expectations. With 20 years in systems, I’m genuinely amazed by its design and features—all built in Excel! And the price? Unbelievable. You’ve definitely made a new fan!” — Chuck S., CT, United States
“Great product, fantastic customer service. I highly recommend Gantt Excel to all types of project managers!” — Matt, CA, United States
“This chart is amazing and incredibly easy to use—it’ll be a resource I rely on for years! The customer service is excellent too; they provided immediate solutions to all my questions.” — Jay, ON, United States
Everything you wanted to know about Gantt Charts…
How to Create a Gantt Chart in Excel?
Step-by-Step Tutorial for Creating a Gantt Chart in Excel
Here is our Gantt Chart Tutorial for you to get started. Just click on the link below to view step by step instructions to create a project timeline in a few minutes