Learn how to create a Gantt chart in Excel. Create a Gantt chart to present your data, schedule your project tasks, or track your progress in Excel.

Looking for a little help creating a Gantt Chart? Use the Gantt Chart Wizard to end up with the chart you want. Before you start, you’ll need to add the Gantt Chart Wizard to the Project ribbon.

The Gantt Chart view is the most commonly used view in Project. It lists the tasks in your project, and illustrates their relationship to one another and the schedule using Gantt bars. The Gantt Chart view is the default view for new projects.

This topic instructs users on the various ways they can format the bar chart of a Gantt Chart view in Microsoft Project 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016.

A Gantt chart helps you schedule your project tasks and track your progress. To communicate detailed task and schedule information to managers or other team members, you can create a Gantt chart in Visio that includes tasks, milestones, dependencies, timescales, and more.

Customize and navigate the Gantt chart. The Gantt chart, displayed on the right portion of the default project tasks list view, uses a timeline and Gantt bars to represent the tasks in your project. You can choose what fields are used as the start and end points for the Gantt bars. You can also easily navigate through the Gantt chart using the ...

Tip: If you’d like help with creating a Gantt chart, see Use a wizard to create a Gantt chart. On the Gantt chart, click a task and click Task and the percentage complete you want to show. For example, to show a task as 25 completed, click Task > 25% Complete .

This video demonstrates how to display the critical path in your project, in both the Gantt Chart view and other views.

Create a new Gantt Chart in Visio. On the Gantt Chart menu, click Import Data. On the first wizard page, click Information that's already stored in a file. On the next wizard page, under Select the format of your project data, click Microsoft Project File, and then click Next.

You can add almost any piece of project information next to Gantt bars, such as people’s names, task costs, or task durations. And you can add text all over the bars, on top, underneath, or even inside.