I know in your guide, you just type in the date in its general format but is there a way that it can pick up this number automatically? I have an idea or two to try out, but I seem to remember trying this in the past with no joy. Thanks for your reply. This is very annoying. I used arbitrary values as examples. In a more detailed analysis, there may be tracking of progress against the milestones, which would mean formulas formulas would have to be determined.
Especially if you want to be able to update them easily. Interesting approach, using SmartArt as an intermediate step to turn an Excel list into a set at shapes and labels.
And maintaining the collection of shapes sounds like a nightmare. Why not build the chart in Excel, then copy and paste it into PowerPoint? Jon, Absolutely phenomenal series! Breaks it down beautifully… I have a question … I want to graph two hockey players … from two opposing teams that faced each other in a game. The goal is to chart their start times and duration, and they go on the ice in shifts. So, for example, player 1 during his first shift, enters the ice at which means 55 seconds have elapsed in the game and stays on for a minute and 26 seconds … Player A of the opposing team jumps on the ice at after 57 seconds have elapsed and stays on for a minute and 45 seconds … My goals is to see which players have start times and durations that overlap the most.
Is this possible to do with 2 sets of data values in Gantt? How would this be done? Much thanks again. Hi John, I found your article by accident and it was a revelation. Thank you so much.
Do you know why once I changed Finished and Unfinished to XY Scatter, Excel automatically assigns them to the secondary axis group and adds a secondary vertical axis but not aligned with the previous bars.
Thank you so much for your answer. If you have a bar chart, Excel cannot plot other chart types on the same axes as the bar data. So Excel automatically assigns the other data to the secondary axes, and we just have to make it work. Are your points not aligned vertically? Are your points not aligned horizontally?
If Excel also provided a secondary horizontal axis, you may delete it. Hi Jon, thank you very much for your prompt reply. I would like to show you a picture of that. Thanks a lot. This is a well documented example of creating Gantt Charts which I was trying to make more dynamic using the Excel Table functionality. In essence to add a variable amount of tasks to the chart without having to format and update my formulas and chart!
Sadly, this includes according to this example adding a field name in cell B2, which leads to a totally different chart! Is there a work around, or option which I might have missed to overcome this? Would like to hear from you! If having a label in cell B2 messes up the chart, select all of the needed columns except column B when you create the chart, then use Select Data to add the appropriate X values to the chart.
I realize it has been a while since this post was last commented on, but I wanted to thank you for the tutorial and pose a question. I have searched all over the web for a solution, but the XY series for Finished and Unfinished just do not appear when I paste them in or manually add the series.
The series are plotted against a secondary axis, and the secondary axis is present, but the actual data points do not appear on the chart. I have tried with values in the X-axis labels if the Category text is throwing it off, but to no avail.
Any help? When pasted, these series are stacked bars like Done and Not Done, but their lengths are fractions less than one, and the lengths of the other bars are days or weeks in the example and perhaps months and years in yours. Simply click OK for the Duration data to be added to your Excel chart. The resulting bar chart should look similar to this: 4.
Add task descriptions to the Gantt chart Now you need to replace the days on the left side of the chart with the list of tasks. At this point your Gantt chart should have task descriptions on the left side and look something like this: 5. Transform the bar graph into the Excel Gantt chart What you have now is still a stacked bar chart. You have to add the proper formatting to make it look more like a Gantt chart.
Our goal is to remove the blue bars so that only the orange parts representing the project's tasks will be visible. In technical terms, we won't really delete the blue bars, but rather make them transparent and therefore invisible. Click on the list of tasks in the left-hand part of your Gantt chart to select them. This will display the Format Axis dialog for you. Select the Categories in reverse order option under Axis Options and then click the Close button to save all the changes.
Your Excel chart is starting to look like a normal Gantt chart, isn't it? For example, my Gantt diagram looks like this now: 6. Improve the design of your Excel Gantt chart Though your Excel Gantt chart is beginning to take shape, you can add a few more finishing touches to make it really stylish. As you remember, originally the starting date blue bars resided at the start of your Excel Gantt diagram.
Now you can remove that blank white space to bring your tasks a little closer to the left vertical axis. In the same Format Axis window that you used in the previous step, change Major unit and Minor unit to Fixed too, and then add the numbers you want for the date intervals.
Typically, the shorter your project's timeframe is, the smaller numbers you use. For example, if you want to show every other date, enter 2 in the Major unit. All you see are microscopic cells.
And when you create a Gantt chart on it, you get a boring looking Gantt chart. You can check out these Excel alternatives , or use ClickUp , the highest-rated productivity tool in the world! ClickUp is the Gantt chart software of your dreams. Just try the Gantt Chart view. Use it to calculate the critical path and the dynamic progress percentage with a simple hovering action. How are they different? Take a quick look at our Gantt chart Vs.
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