Create Gantt charts in Excel and manage projects

For relatively simple project management, or drawing Gantt charts, using spreadsheet tools-such as the most expensive and powerful excel, open-source OpenOffice, and free WPS-may be more convenient than the project management software.

1. XL-Easy Gantt Template

This is an Excel template. The download process is about KB and the decompress process is about KB. You need to enable macros. It has powerful functions, allowing you to easily add or delete tasks, manage the progress, and set the work structure.

You can use it for free. We recommend that you register for free ). Home Page

 

2. Excel Gantt Chart template Template

It is actually an Excel file, which is smaller and only 50kb. The current version is 1.2, which is applicable to Microsoft Excel XP/2003 and works normally under wps2007 through xbeta testing. Nature: free.
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3. Hand-made

For more information, see the official Microsoft article.

 

Of course, for complex project management, specialized software is required. The recommended free software is ganttproject. For details, seeArticleReplacing/viewing MS Projects with free software and replacing Ms projects with free software: openproj.

 

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