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Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

A Gantt chart is a graphical representation of the tasks that make up a project, showing each task as a horizontal bar that stretches from its planned start date to its projected end date, and ...

There are several ways to add text next to a Gantt chart in Excel. Because Gantt charts are made from modified bar charts, the text that normally appears on the chart will not always be relevant for ...

Designer David Seah uses Excel to draw up project Gantt charts and offers his spreadsheet template for download. David says: I'm basically just using Excel like graph paper, and there is absolutely no ...

A Column Chart can be used to create the most common form of a timeline in Excel, which consists of a horizontal layout with a time-based X-axis and events or ...