Hourly Gantt Chart Template
Create Hour Based Gantt Charts in Excel
Our Hourly Gantt Chart template will allow you to create professional hourly gantt charts in minutes.
Gantt Excel Hourly Planner is completely automated and allows you to schedule tasks in hours.
If you use Microsoft Excel, you can create an hour based Gantt Chart easily in minutes.
Project plan schedules are typically made for medium or long-term plans.
However, some projects require a detailed breakdown of daily tasks, so it is best to schedule in hours.
Also sometimes the effort required is calculated in hours instead of days.
You can use our free hourly gantt chart template created in Excel to schedule tasks in hours.
Here is an example of an event plan created in Gantt Excel’s Hourly Planner
Gantt Excel gives you the ability to see every step of your project plan from beginning to end.
Our free hourly Gantt chart excel template was created for business managers and project planners
who need to present timelines, plans, status reports and other project data in small time increments.
You can create granular plans that are under 24 hours or plan any project that is massive but requires duration to be tracked in hours.
Gantt Excel allows you to estimate the number of hours a person or resource will take to complete a task.
This will provide project managers an edge in creating a detailed project schedule with hourly estimating and resourcing.
Create Hourly Gantt Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 & 2019 on Windows and Excel 2016 & 2019 on macOS.
Also works on all versions supported by Office365/ Microsoft 365.
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Everyone uses Microsoft Excel almost every day for almost everything – from a simple calculator to tracking massive projects.
There’s just one thing that Excel is not good at and that is creating Gantt charts.
For this reason, we created Gantt Excel, an automated excel template that allows you to create awesome Gantt Charts within Excel.
Daily & Hourly Planner
We have two versions, Daily and Hourly. Take your pick and schedule tasks based on days or in hours.
The Hourly planner is the only Hourly Gantt Chart Template in this whole wide world.
Gantt Excel Ribbon
Using this Gantt Chart Template is very straightforward. We have customized the Excel ribbon to include a Gantt Menu with buttons to add Gantt charts, Tasks, Milestones, etc.
The Hourly Planner includes an Hourly View as well.
You can create cascading task 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.
Setting dependencies between tasks is the most powerful feature of Gantt Excel.
The in-built auto-scheduling automation of the gantt template is able to update the dates based on changes made to its dependent tasks.
Project Dashboard - Free Add-on
Yeah, you heard that right. The Project Dashboard is a free add-on in our Gantt Excel Template.
A project dashboard is the best way to easily communicate key project details.
With a click of a button, a million calculations analyze your project plan and the project dashboard is instantly created based on the project timeline.
Costs Module – Account for Project Costs
Gantt Excel doubles up as a budget and expenses template. Keep track of project costs in your Gantt chart.
Set a baseline and estimated project budget. Also track baseline cost, estimated cost and actual cost for each task.
Milestones
Ability to add Milestones in the Gantt Chart
Milestones help your team stay on track and to more accurately determine whether or not your project is on schedule.
Additionally, you can create milestone charts for important presentations and communications with senior management and clients.
Task Progress Indicators
Show Task Progress for each task in the Gantt Chart Timeline
You can manually set the task progress based on actual progress or set it to be calculated automatically.
Configure Work Days
Gantt Excel automatically accounts for selected workdays.
Instantly switch between Gantt Views
Gantt Excel has six calendar views – Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly View.
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly
Half-Yearly
Yearly
There is no other gantt chart template or online tool that features this many calendar views.
Our Hourly Planner also includes a Hourly View.
Hourly View
Ability to Set Parent & Child Tasks in your Project.
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.
Resource Module
Ability to Assign Resources to tasks and track Resource Cost.
Set up Holidays and Non-Working Days per Resource.
This Hourly Gantt Template allows you to add Resource Work Hours as well and make resource allocation a breeze.
You can now display any text within the Gantt bars inside the Gantt Timeline.
This allows you to show the right amount of detail to understand the project plan instantly.
Intuitive Forms to Add Tasks & Milestones in the Gantt Chart
The task form will provide a detailed overview of task information including resources and dependent tasks.
Select Dates Using the Date Picker
Select any date within the Gantt Chart to bring up the Date Picker
Highlight Overdue Tasks
Immediately see any overdue tasks in your project schedule and save them from falling through the cracks.
Overdue tasks show in red color or any color of your choosing.
Customize the Gantt Timeline Bars
Colors are important visual cues in Gantt charts. You can customize the project timeline colors as much as you want. Create a project timeline to impress!
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
The above screenshot is an example of a one-month construction plan created in Gantt Excel’s Hourly planner. The duration is set in Hours and the Gantt timeline is set to Daily View.
Our Gantt Сhart Template Turbocharges Project Management
Gantt Chart Excel – Complete Feature List
- Ability to create as many Gantt Charts in Excel as you want
- Add as many tasks and milestones to a gantt chart
- Schedule tasks in hours
- 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 workweek calendar days
- Parent tasks auto-calculate dates, percent complete and costs
- Set project estimated and baseline budget
- Generate a 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
- Hourly, 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 the 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
“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)”
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“This is a fantastic tool giving you an alternative to using MS project to create project Gantt charts. A++”
Marty E
CA, United States
“Very well designed project planning tool, used it many times and will keep using it. Support and delivery is fast and professional. @GanttExcel: keep up the good work!”
Camiel
Limburg
“This Gantt chart is the best thing that has happened to me. With ever-changing timelines, having the ability to just update one date and have everything flow is incredible and saves me a lot of time. Further, their team is very responsive, so its really great working with them and their product. I highly recommend.”
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DC, United States
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