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Slice-able Gantt Charts in Excel

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at depictdatastudio.com.

I spent a couple hours livestreaming, and created this masterpiece:

a slice-able Gantt chart that automatically updates and populates itself when you add more rows to your dataset (i.e., no tedious manual updates).

How to Make Slice-able Gantt Charts in Excel

You can watch the high-level tutorial here:

https://youtu.be/LXF2du3-W70

What’s Inside

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 1:08 The end product: Slice-able in Excel. or printed/PDFd
  • 1:52 Gantt chart options in Excel: 1) Stacked bar chart or 2) Inside cells, like this
  • 3:50 Dataset
  • 5:51 Pivot table
  • 6:29 Slicer
  • 6:40 List of projects and their amounts
  • 8:30 Helper cells to the left and above
  • 9:55 AND formula to fill in the body of the table
  • 11:18 Conditional formatting
  • 12:50 Theme Colors
  • 13:40 Your Homework List 41:17 Want more details? Watch the 2.5-hr livestream
  • 14:37 Download this Gantt chart

Download the Excel File

It’s here.

Related Resources

  • The full livestream where I created this from scratch
  • Helper cells

June 5, 2025 by Ann K. Emery

Filed Under: depictdatastudio

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