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A Gantt chart is used to represent the project schedule in a graphical view. Do you know that the Gantt chart has been named after Henry Gantt.

Let us learn how we can prepare a gantt chart in excel.

However, there are many scheduling tools to prepare a project schedule In this tutorial, we shall be using the stacked chart to generate the gantt chart and let us see how to do this now.

1. I am considering a sample schedule with 5 activities like this as shown in B2:D7 having activities, target dates and duration

2. Select the entire data range B2:D7

3. Go to Insert tab from the menu bar, in the charts section, click on horizontal 2D stacked bar

4. Right click on the chart area and click select data

5. “Select Data Source” dialog box will then appear, Click on “Edit” button under the category of Horizontal (Category) Axis Labels and select axis label range as B3:B7, click ok.

6. Under Legend Entries (Series), Click on add to add a new series

7. Under series name: type Date

8. And select the data range as C3:C7, click ok; ensure Date series will be on top and click ok.

9. Now convert the dates into general format from the home tab in the menu bar

10. click on the horizontal axis bar and click format

11. From the Axis format dialog box, set the minimum and maximum values just before and after the first and last dates like this

12. In the axis options, under Number, select date as the category Format code as "dd-mmm", click add.

13. Select the date series, right click format series, under fill options, select no fill.

14. Now as a final step, select the vertical axis and click format axis

15. Under axis options, select the checkbox "Categories in reverse order".

Do further formatting as per the requirement to add the cosmetics.

So friends this is all about the Gantt chart in excel.

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