Microsoft Office Assistance: Create a Gantt chart in Excel: "here are many ways to create a Gantt chart. For example, Microsoft Project, a task-planning program, makes it easy to track and chart project timelines with a built-in Gantt chart view. Another option is to use Excel. Excel does not contain a built-in Gantt chart format; however, you can create a Gantt chart in Excel by customizing the stacked bar chart type.





This article shows you how to create a Gantt chart like the following example."