Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrated project schedule. Gantt charts summarises the start and finish dates of the elements of a project.
Simple Gantt chart can easily be prepared in Excel. The Gantt Chart created here are in Excel 2010.
- List down activities for your project in one column.
- Adjacent two columns will have start and end day
- Next will be day number (refer below image).
- Plotting of Gantt chart will be done with help of condition formatting and an easy formula. We have used formula IF(AND(E$3>=$C4, E$3<=$D4),”Y”,””). This will fill cell with Y if the cell represents DAY for the activity. Now apply conditional formatting to fill cell with desired color (Refer below).
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