While there are advanced project management (PM) tools for creating Gantt charts and other visuals, you can also create them using Microsoft Excel’s Stacked Bar Chart feature. Keep reading to ...

You’ll now have an Excel bar chart that lists your tasks and dates—in reverse order. (Don’t worry; we’ll fix that in a minute.) Step 5: Transform Into a Gantt Chart ...

The bar chart will visualize your Gantt chart’s most important data points Step 3: Input Duration Data The next step is to add another series to your Excel chart to reflect each task’s duration.

For example, if the Gantt chart lists four projects, highlight the four cells containing the project names. Place the cursor between the "2" and the "3" in the row number bar, which is located on ...