Free Gantt Chart Excel Template

Our Free Gantt Chart template allows anyone to create Gantt Charts in Excel.

Gantt Excel is The Best Free Gantt Chart Excel Template which helps you manage your projects easily in any web application.
If you use Microsoft Excel, you can create a Gantt Chart with almost no learning curve by downloading our Free Gantt Chart Excel Template.
Microsoft Excel is instantly familiar, so everyone on your team “gets it” and hits the ground running.

Using this Free Gantt chart template is very straightforward. All you need to do is plug in your tasks and the dates and you will have a presentation quality Gantt chart. Using our Free Gantt chart excel template can save you tons of time by organizing your project plan and tackling the tedious planning work for you!

Gantt chart excel template ribbon

Click on the link below to download the free version.

Gantt Chart Excel Template – Free – v2.61

Compatible with Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 & 2016 on Windows and Excel 2016 on macOS

You are just 3 steps away from creating professional-looking Gantt Charts.

STEP 1 – Download & Open File

STEP 2 – Enable Macros & Editing

STEP 3 – Start Making Timelines

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Gantt Chart Excel Ribbon

Gantt Excel gives you the ability to see every step of your project from beginning to end.

Create Gantt Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 & 2016 on Windows & Excel 2016 on macOS.

“This is the best alternative to Microsoft Project. This is an Excel Template on Steroids, very Powerful yet very Simple to use.
Best Project Management tool ever, Period.” – Tony Smith (Project Manager)”

FEATURES

Gantt Excel Ribbon

Using this Gantt template is very straightforward. We have customized the Excel ribbon to include a Gantt Tab with buttons to add Gantt charts, Tasks, Milestones etc.

Gantt Excel Template Ribbon

Task and Milestone Dependencies

You can create cascading dependencies in the Gantt Chart based on time, so that you see how time changes will affect other parts of the process & the final deliverable.

Task and Milestone Dependencies

Project Management Dashboards

A dashboard is the best way to easily communicate key project details.
With a click of a button the project dashboard is instantly created based on the Gantt chart.
Gantt Chart Excel Dashboard

Costs Module – Account for Project Budgets & Task Costs

Gantt Excel doubles up as a budget and expenses template. Keep track of costs and expenditures for projects and tasks.

Gantt Chart Excel Costs

Milestones

Ability to add Milestones in the Gantt Chart.

Gantt Chart Excel Milestones

Task Progress Indicators

Show Task Progress with percent complete in the grid and in the Gantt Chart Timeline.

Gantt Chart Excel Task Percent Status

Configure Work Days

Automatically account for selected workdays.

Set Workdays

Instantly switch between Views

Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly View.

Gantt Chart Views

Parent & Child Task Relationship

Ability to Set Parent & Child Tasks.

Gantt Chart Excel Parent Child Task Relationship

Resource Cost Module

Ability to select resources for tasks and assign costs.

Gantt Chart Excel Costs

Holiday Calendar

Set the holiday calendar to exclude holidays in the Gantt chart.

Gantt Chart Excel Holiday Calendar

Create Elegant Project Timelines

Show the right amount of detail

Show Text in Gantt Bars

Intuitive Forms to Add Tasks & Milestones in the Gantt Chart

Gantt Chart Task Form

Select Dates Using the Date Picker

Date Picker

Show Baseline, Estimated and Actual Timeline Bars

Gantt Baseline Actual Bars

Highlight Overdue Tasks

Overdue tasks show in red color or any color of your choosing.
Gantt Overdue Tasks

Customize the Gantt Chart Timeline Bars with your Favorite Colors

Create a project timeline to impress!
Gantt Chart Colors

Gantt Chart Excel – Complete Feature List

Ability to create as many Gantt charts as you want
Add as many tasks and milestones to a gantt chart
Add or edit tasks using intuitive forms
Duplicate tasks easily
Set parent and child task relationships
Create task and milestone dependencies
Fine-tune dependent task dates using lag
Select dates using a date picker
Track estimated, baseline and actual dates
Auto-calculate duration based on start and finish dates
Auto-calculate end date based on start date and duration
Account for holidays
Set up work week calendar days
Parent tasks auto-calculate dates, percent complete and costs
Set project estimated and baseline budget
Generate project dashboard with the click of a button
Track estimated, baseline and actual costs
Set Currency per project

Track task percent complete
Highlight overdue tasks in the timeline
Auto-calculate percent complete or enter it manually
Set simple or weighted percentage for parent tasks
Add resources to tasks
Set resource per day cost
Add task notes
Insert up to 10 custom columns
Show or hide system and custom columns
Gantt chart timeline automatically updates based on any change
Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly views
Show estimated, baseline and actual timeline bars
Task percentage complete bar overlays the estimated bar
Scroll timeline to start, current or end of project
Customize timeline gantt bars and milestone colors
Show or hide dependency connectors
Today indicator available in the Gantt chart
Show text on Gantt Bars

Reviews From Around The Globe

People everywhere love Gantt Chart Excel and we thrive off their feedback.
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“Great product, fantastic customer service. Highly recommend this tool for all types of project managers!”

Matt
CA, United States

“The chart is amazing and easy to use. This will be a resource I use for years to come! Excellent customer service. Had questions about how to use and they provided solutions almost immediate.”

Jay
ON, Canada

“Excellent service and customer support. The product is very intuitive and easy to use. ”

Hilary Reid
Scotland, United Kingdom

“Simple but effective, easy to use but provides all you need to manage a project. Excellent customer support!!”

ON, Canada

“This is an excellent product, very easy to use, easy to buy and great value for money in saved time. You do not need to be an excel expert to use it, the automation of entry does it all for you. I recently showed the website to clients to help with their project planning. They were very pleased and will be adopting it through the company. I needed to contact support to help with a query; their response was quick, efficient and very helpful. Excellent service and great product, I thoroughly recommend Gantt Excel.”

T. Dulieu
Essex, United Kingdom

“This saved a lot of time for me. Having to update a schedule in project, then copy to excel was very time consuming and didn’t allow real time changes in my meetings. Having this done in excel allows me to customize my schedule just like project while adding additional tabs for other information. I’ve received nothing but positive feedback from my pears. Well worth the investment and has paid for itself. ”

Jerrod
AL, United States

“I am a new at using Gantt software. So I was very impressed with the speed and thoroughness of their customer service when I had basic questions on how to use the software. They were very thorough in their responses, which made it very easy for me to use. I have purchased similar software before but found them difficult to use and there was no customer service support at all. This is a great product, at a tremendous price, with service you can count on. I have recommended this product to numerous people in my field and will continue to do so.”

Gary L
NV, United States

“Gantt Excel saved the day – And blew me away!
I needed a simple and intuitive Excel Gantt chart to quickly relay project status to business stakeholders comfortable with Excel. After trying a couple, I found GanttExcel and it exceeded expectations! I’ve been in systems for 20 years and I’m amazed at the design and features of the product – all built in Excel! And the price? Unbelievable! Many thanks – you’ve made another fan!”Chuck S
CT, United States

“Gantt Excel is very intuitive, fast and offers great features…. My clients find the Gantt Chart easy to read and understandable. Project Managers in my team love this tool. ”

Samantha Davis
United Kingdom

“Great product, allows you to customize your project to a good degree. Impressing my Boss!”

Jer
IN, United States

“Just what I was looking for, and such a helpful support team. This gives me the ability to produce professional gantt charts, at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. Well done to the team at Gantt Excel. ”

Gary Forrest
NY, United States

“We are a medium sized company, and have been using GanttExcel for almost a year now. The software is easy to use, as it is fully integrated in Excel. The software offers more than enough features and flexibility for us, to produce good quality project schedules. The Project Dashboard view is very useful for progress reporting.
Customer service is lightning fast.
Overall we are very pleased with the GanttExcel software.
Amazing it can be offered at this price level.”Albert
Sliedrecht , The Netherlands

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