Man, 10 years I worked on the construction time schedule, recently I saw Excel doing automatic things, I think it can only be in MS Project, rock you man..
Dude, First of all, I would like to thank you for your hard work, but most importantly, I would like to thank you for making all your spreadsheets available for free. My life has been made so much easier and more efficient by this.
Very helpful Tutorial. Explained the concept in a very easy to understand manner. I am an Architect and was looking for a tutorial to help me schedule my projects in execution and this tutorial has exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for this. Keep up the good work...
Thank you very much, excellent explanation, sir. However, I have a question: If I have two days off during the activity period, is there an equation to add those two days to the activity period?
I have a challenge for you 😅 How can I make a gantt chart on google sheets but instead of days for month for example a project for about 24 months or 48 month ? I was able to build up the code but it was long line. Plus how can I make real updated data, meaning the more we get to the end of the project the more we get closer to the end of the project the line will increase. It will be kinda percentages with time.
You have no idea how much this helped me! This is exactly what I needed to create a super effective timeline for my project. Thank you very much! Needless to say, I am a new subscriber.
I must admit I was super excited watching you video as I have been looking for something like this for some time now, Then when I saw the work that went behind creating knowing how bad I am with excel- I thought I just wish he can just share that template. And then, there it is the first thing in your description... Thank you very very much for this, You made this lady very happy...
Hello Sophia. Thank you very much for your kind note. It is really nice to hear this type of comments from viewers and subscribers. I invite you to check out some of the other videos I've posted in my channel. Thanks for watching.
This was SO helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. Your tips, formulas, layout, etc. were all really easy to follow. I really appreciate it!
SIR, If I learn most of the project management tool on excel along with good experience (3 years) in engineering drafting for which profile & position I can give try?
I wish you were my primary school teacher. You're excellent and I the video is beyond useful for anyone who needs a refresher or simply wants to learn.
Hello Henri. Thanks for the kind and rewarding words. I do put a lot of effort in creating this content and it is nice to hear it is actually helping you guys :)
I just love you man. I learnt excel(Conditional formating, conditional formula) and Gantt chart together. Kudos to you. Keep uploading these amazing stuffs
This was an excellent step by step demo. I have a lot of users who do not have Project so they can't access Gannt charts, this was my alternative. Thanks!
Oh my gosh! This was a very helpful tutorial! It walked me through creating my own timelilne. Thank you. I just wish I knew more about these types of formulas so that I wouldn't have to be walked through one step by step.
You make list of holidays in separate sheet and use workday function which will automaticly exclude those days. Also if you have project going on in countries that have other weekend days (friday & saturday) keep that on mind.
Hi TECH. Thank you for the great simple guide, But I notice that e.g. the 4 days duration project ended up being 5 days. As a fix, Cell E6 formula should be ' =D6+(C6-1) before the fill down. :)
I just want to say Thank you. I was doing my assignment and it needed a Gantt chart i didn't even know where to start , i followed your tutorial and i must say it is outstanding. you a life saver.
There are mistakes.. for example task id 1 demolition has task duration of 4 days.. the difference of July 5 and July 1 is 4 days too.. but if you count the cells its 5 green cells which means the duration is 5 days. And the project duration calculation should be (end date - start date + 1) No doubt the video is very helpful to me. Thanks. 😊
@@rizwanshah7720 I agree with you for example the demolition started on May 01 and it has a duration of 4 days and it must be ended on May 04 because May 01 is the first day of work.
A real good and inspiring tutorial; this is very useful. I struggled with similar challenges. Calculating with durations and dates is a bit tricky. Could it be that for calculating the end date you have to add the duration minus one (i.e. =D6+C6-1)? A one-day job has then the same start and end date. Apart from that really great and very useful! Thank you very much.
Good solution for a simple Gantt chart. How would you handle something more esoteric, where certain tasks may need to begin BEFORE one (or more) previous task(s)? Also, how would you handle taking weekends out of the timeline, for such cases that require tasks to only be performed on weekdays? Lastly (and this is a bit if a challenge), is it possible to create such a chart in Excel, which allows for some tasks that be performed only on weekdays, while other tasks can also be performed throughout the weekend? Can it also include tasks that can only be performed on the weekends AND span across multiple weekends?
@@AhmedDaabis It must be possible, but I really haven't had the time to devote to working towards a solution. Been swamped with other tasks. That's why I was hoping someone might post an answer. 🤗
You could do that by modifying two of his formula, using Excel functions WEEKDAY() and WORKDAY(). It's not hard to do, and takes two steps. STEP ONE ======== First, you'd add something to the formula used in the timeline cells (the one he starts building it at 5:10) to prevent the green blocks appearing on the weekend. So his formula looks like this: =IF(AND(F$5>=$D6,F$5
@@bakedutah8411 Great work !! Immense help... But it will be the best formula if you can help me include holidays too..what syntax, formula to add as logical test if i have a table array/ list of national holidays that i dont want the timeline tracker to add ?? Please help..am stuck and it is a work-related issue... Looking forward to your tip :)
Ateesh Hazra, the WORKDAY() function has an optional third argument - a list of days to ignore, oftend used for holidays. So just add the range where your national holidays are, and that will take them into account. More here: support.office.com/en-us/article/workday-function-f764a5b7-05fc-4494-9486-60d494efbf33
thanks a million! I'd been looking for an understandable tutorial of how to do a Gantt Chart and you just made such a great video that anyone can understand how to creat a chart, eventhough they don't have a clue of how to use excel like in my case haha...
Excellent video content! Apologies for butting in, I would love your opinion. Have you tried - Weydaniel Organized Dominator (google it)? It is a smashing one off product for getting 7000 plus project management and business templates without the hard work. Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my mate after many years got amazing success with it.
Many thanks, I've been looking for "project management resource plan template" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Seyily Substratal Smasher - (do a search on google ) ? It is an awesome one off product for discovering how to get amazing project management and business templates without the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my colleague got excellent results with it.
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded. IF there is work on some of those days you may need add a cutout with an OR function or XOR.
@@Daeon108 Hi Daeion - this works - but then in the startdate / enddate how can i make the calculation - now it takes out the weekends, so i did a test with 7 working days, and since there are no weekends anymore it only shows 5 workingdays - you have maybe a solution for this too? Super gratefull for your help!
fantastic, just what I needed. BTW; I needed weeks instead of days, very easy to change; just used day+7 for the colums and added a row with WEEKNUMBER above it. Again, fantastic tutorial.
Hello, I am currently trying to make one in weeks as the project goes over 8 months, however when I follow his explanations the chart is difficult to read because of the many days. Can you help me on this, please?
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded.
@@Daeon108 Hi Daeion, this works perfectly! but now its doesnt count all the days - ex if there are 17 workingdays only 5 blocks are shown and it doesnt continue after the weekend - do you have a solution for this please?
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded.
That’s good to hear Elaijha. That’s the purpose of my videos. You can also download the files from www.theexcelchallenge.com Thanks for watching, T-E-CH
Hello Vaibhav, I'm glad you found this video helpful. In regards of weekends, use the recommendation I put in the example but customize per your needs. For example, in the top of the table where I put the whole 31 days of the month, simply enter weekdays and skip weekends. Give it a try and that should help. Let me know if you need more help.
For example, if you want to use July of 2017, your top header would show July 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31.
Thanks for explanation. Agree that skipping weekend in the header would solve this issue. But is there any trick where weekends are included in the header and still the tasks are shown excluding weekends?
I think you can customize your Gantt chart, combining the formula IF that showed in the example with the formula WEEKDAY. The formula WEEKDAY can identify Saturdays and Sundays, just combine that with IF and that should do the job. Trust that helps.
Great instructional video, well done. I do have one question; how do you eliminate weekends within the schedule? As it stands now your example works as if you are working every day, seven days a week.
Sorry this doesn’t compute. For example the demolition task is 4 days but 5 days are highlighted on the timeline. Project duration is different to the days on task (even taking into account that you start next task on next day)
Hello Richard. I'm afraid you're right. I made a mistake in the 2:30 mark, where I should have entered a -1 in the formula. Using the same example you are using, if I am counting May 1 as day 1, and the task duration is 4 days, then the end date should be May 4. The formula should read =D6+C6-1 instead of =D6+C6 That's an easy fix. Sorry about the mistake. I hope you still were able to learn something new from the video. Thanks for your comment. T-E-CH
In 1st task (demolition), the task duration is 4, but in time line it fills 5 box (from Jun 1 to Jun 5). As one green cell shows 1 day, so as per that, there should be only 4 cells to be filled with green. So is there any changes? Or correction?
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded.
Hello Sravan, Please send me an email to theexcelchallenge@gmail.com and I will send you the file. I don’t have a portal yet for viewers to download the files but that is something I have in mind for the future. T-E-CH
Great video. I used the freeze pane in place just in case i am working on a larger project. That way you can move left or right of the timeline with ease.
Hello sir, love your chart, my issue is my chart is over a 8 month period and when I use the Min function it picks the lowest month value not the earliest date, ideas please.
Hello Shawn. It is good to hear you loved the chart. I see you've resolved the issue. If you ever want me to check out your spreadsheet, I'll be glad to do that if you email me at theexcelchallenge@gmail.com Thanks for watching.
Shawn, I'm glad you resolved the issue. If it's worth for the community to know how you resolve it, I invite you to please share the solution, so others can get that knowledge too. Just a thought... T-E-CH
Hello Marcus. Try this: Refer back to the video at the 8:28 mark where I show a formula F5+1. In my example, +1 means next day. For your project, do everything the same but instead of F5+1 type F5+7. In this case, +7 means next week. Then simply fill the formula to the right the same way I do in the 8:35 mark. And finally, enter your time duration in column C and your dates in column D. This will resolve your issue and you will be able to present your 5-month project in a one-pager or in one-screen. I trust this answers your question. Thanks for watching and I hope you check out our other videos. T-E-CH
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You are God's sent. Thank you very much. Was struggling on that for weeks. In 9 mins you saved me. Do you have any gatt chart with start date , finish date, start and actual finish date combine? Would be really helpfull
Man you've explained it smoothly with literal ease. This is by far one of the easiest video to follow and understand thoroughly. Great job!
Man, 10 years I worked on the construction time schedule, recently I saw Excel doing automatic things, I think it can only be in MS Project, rock you man..
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Dude, First of all, I would like to thank you for your hard work, but most importantly, I would like to thank you for making all your spreadsheets available for free. My life has been made so much easier and more efficient by this.
I must say one of the best teaching videos on TH-cam, i thank you so much.
the wonders of internet...5 years later this video has saved me from a very sticky situation. Thanks man God BLESS YOU!!
Very helpful Tutorial. Explained the concept in a very easy to understand manner. I am an Architect and was looking for a tutorial to help me schedule my projects in execution and this tutorial has exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for this. Keep up the good work...
Ditto but I am Mechanical Engineer
It is the same for me. I am a project manager responsible for curriculum for an online educational provider and this tutorial was perfect - thank you
Thank you very much, excellent explanation, sir. However, I have a question: If I have two days off during the activity period, is there an equation to add those two days to the activity period?
Thank you so much. You’ve saved so many poor students and newbies with this tutorial.
Man this is the simples/easies way, great job in explaining
each step but in same time the video is not long. like follow done
I have a challenge for you 😅 How can I make a gantt chart on google sheets but instead of days for month for example a project for about 24 months or 48 month ? I was able to build up the code but it was long line. Plus how can I make real updated data, meaning the more we get to the end of the project the more we get closer to the end of the project the line will increase. It will be kinda percentages with time.
You have no idea how much this helped me! This is exactly what I needed to create a super effective timeline for my project. Thank you very much! Needless to say, I am a new subscriber.
I must admit I was super excited watching you video as I have been looking for something like this for some time now, Then when I saw the work that went behind creating knowing how bad I am with excel- I thought I just wish he can just share that template. And then, there it is the first thing in your description... Thank you very very much for this, You made this lady very happy...
The easiest and best explanation I've seen on how to set up a Gantt Chart. Thank you TECH.
Hello Sophia. Thank you very much for your kind note. It is really nice to hear this type of comments from viewers and subscribers. I invite you to check out some of the other videos I've posted in my channel. Thanks for watching.
I got mixed up looking for Gantt charts tutorial, this video of yours really got me what i need...thank u a lot for making life so easy.
end date will be D6+C6-1 ex: may 1-2-3-4 duration will be 4 day
How the formulae change if I have half a day for a specific task ?
Do I have to use per hour calculations ?
it took me a while but its worth watching your video. Finally I got to know how to do this like a pro!!! thank you
This was SO helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. Your tips, formulas, layout, etc. were all really easy to follow. I really appreciate it!
I must give thanks to you on creating all these templates. You really are remarkable and really save me so much time to do this. God Bless you friend!
This video has changed my life!!! Thank you so much! ❤️🥰❤️
2024 and still you are a life saver! thanks for the free templates as well. New subscriber here :)
Really wonderful video. I found that the end date should require adjustment.
I guess the end date should be start date + Task Duration - 1.
SIR, If I learn most of the project management tool on excel along with good experience (3 years) in engineering drafting for which profile & position I can give try?
Project Manager
start date + Task Duration - 1 that mean it includes start date
@@harshadkondalkar1502 Thanks for your comment, I find this helpful.
@@justinbancayrin3549 as always
I wish you were my primary school teacher. You're excellent and I the video is beyond useful for anyone who needs a refresher or simply wants to learn.
Hello Henri. Thanks for the kind and rewarding words. I do put a lot of effort in creating this content and it is nice to hear it is actually helping you guys :)
Oh my goodness you’re a life saver!!!
I needed to get a project done in 1 hour😆
Your comment said it all😆😆
Thank you so much for making things simple in a straight forward ways .
you are a true Excel wizard. it's the real thing.
Thank you Andrew and thanks for watching.
I just love you man. I learnt excel(Conditional formating, conditional formula) and Gantt chart together. Kudos to you. Keep uploading these amazing stuffs
Great work. There are now a few good Gantt Chart templates available on exel for those of us less skilled at formating.
Best video on gantt chart so far
I've been trying to find a good tutorial for ages and I stumbled on this and it was just what I needed! Thank you! :)
Same here i was also searching searching gantt charts and always lost.
Take a look this one : th-cam.com/video/un8j6QqpYa0/w-d-xo.html
I had an idea to make a timeline for classical music 5 minutes ago. Now I’m here.
Most effective video. I learn something new today. Thank you
Thank you so much for this! It has helped me complete my dissertation for final year of University
Man you"ve really saved me today. I had no option but to hit subscribe. Awesome, thank you.
Like it a lot,
Can you make the timeline based on the weeks of the year?
This was an excellent step by step demo.
I have a lot of users who do not have Project so they can't access Gannt charts, this was my alternative. Thanks!
Oh my gosh! This was a very helpful tutorial! It walked me through creating my own timelilne. Thank you. I just wish I knew more about these types of formulas so that I wouldn't have to be walked through one step by step.
great presentation, practiced & now I'm a genius
Great video. The most helpful one I've seen. However, how do I block out weekends and holidays?
You make list of holidays in separate sheet and use workday function which will automaticly exclude those days. Also if you have project going on in countries that have other weekend days (friday & saturday) keep that on mind.
Thank you so much. I have been struggling with my Project until i come across this Video
Hi TECH. Thank you for the great simple guide, But I notice that e.g. the 4 days duration project ended up being 5 days.
As a fix, Cell E6 formula should be ' =D6+(C6-1) before the fill down. :)
And the project duration also increases by 1 right
I just want to say Thank you. I was doing my assignment and it needed a Gantt chart i didn't even know where to start , i followed your tutorial and i must say it is outstanding. you a life saver.
There are mistakes.. for example task id 1 demolition has task duration of 4 days.. the difference of July 5 and July 1 is 4 days too.. but if you count the cells its 5 green cells which means the duration is 5 days.
And the project duration calculation should be (end date - start date + 1)
No doubt the video is very helpful to me. Thanks. 😊
Thanks for highlighting. at 2:24 the formula must be "start date + task duration - 1" then the highlighted cells would be equal to duration.
@@rizwanshah7720 I agree with you for example the demolition started on May 01 and it has a duration of 4 days and it must be ended on May 04 because May 01 is the first day of work.
Thank you very much! This timeline is exactly what I need for my team!
Glad it was helpful!
When locking a cell, you can also use F4 to cycle through the vertical, horizontal and both locks.
How? It's not working for me
Thank you so much, sir!!! My exam is related to this and it was a big help for me.
A real good and inspiring tutorial; this is very useful. I struggled with similar challenges. Calculating with durations and dates is a bit tricky. Could it be that for calculating the end date you have to add the duration minus one (i.e. =D6+C6-1)? A one-day job has then the same start and end date. Apart from that really great and very useful! Thank you very much.
Agree. Have to add one
Yes, I too realized that the days considerations are incremented by one.
You're a hero. I struggle with anything tech but this is easy to understand
That was well done, sir! You explained that process perfectly. Thank you very much for sharing. 😀
Thank you for this video sir, it was a wonderful thing to learn with your seamless explanations. Love from India.
Good solution for a simple Gantt chart.
How would you handle something more esoteric, where certain tasks may need to begin BEFORE one (or more) previous task(s)?
Also, how would you handle taking weekends out of the timeline, for such cases that require tasks to only be performed on weekdays?
Lastly (and this is a bit if a challenge), is it possible to create such a chart in Excel, which allows for some tasks that be performed only on weekdays, while other tasks can also be performed throughout the weekend? Can it also include tasks that can only be performed on the weekends AND span across multiple weekends?
I had the same question too, I developed it to take out the weekends but it doesn't work with me for the schedule
@@AhmedDaabis
It must be possible, but I really haven't had the time to devote to working towards a solution. Been swamped with other tasks. That's why I was hoping someone might post an answer. 🤗
still useful 6 year's later, my first project manage class [thumbs up]
Very helpful tutorial!
Question: how can I integrate into the formula to leave blank the timeline when the date falls in a saturday and sunday?
You could do that by modifying two of his formula, using Excel functions WEEKDAY() and WORKDAY(). It's not hard to do, and takes two steps.
STEP ONE
========
First, you'd add something to the formula used in the timeline cells (the one he starts building it at 5:10) to prevent the green blocks appearing on the weekend. So his formula looks like this:
=IF(AND(F$5>=$D6,F$5
@@bakedutah8411 It worked for saturdays but not for sundays. I still have the green squares on SUNDAY. :( How can I take it away?
Marskocoro, oops, I had a typo. My check for not-Sunday (the big formula in STEP ONE) had 71 instead of just 1. It’s now fixed.
@@bakedutah8411 Great work !! Immense help...
But it will be the best formula if you can help me include holidays too..what syntax, formula to add as logical test if i have a table array/ list of national holidays that i dont want the timeline tracker to add ??
Please help..am stuck and it is a work-related issue...
Looking forward to your tip :)
Ateesh Hazra, the WORKDAY() function has an optional third argument - a list of days to ignore, oftend used for holidays. So just add the range where your national holidays are, and that will take them into account. More here: support.office.com/en-us/article/workday-function-f764a5b7-05fc-4494-9486-60d494efbf33
I find the video quite useful. Just what i needed to solve an issue at work. Deeply appreciate it.
thanks a million! I'd been looking for an understandable tutorial of how to do a Gantt Chart and you just made such a great video that anyone can understand how to creat a chart, eventhough they don't have a clue of how to use excel like in my case haha...
Thanks a lot for sharing this. I had a urgent requirement to create a project roadmap and this helped me on how to do this in a quickest way possible.
Amazing, thank you so much, this really helped me a lot
Excellent video content! Apologies for butting in, I would love your opinion. Have you tried - Weydaniel Organized Dominator (google it)? It is a smashing one off product for getting 7000 plus project management and business templates without the hard work. Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my mate after many years got amazing success with it.
I can not thank you enough dear friend. you helped me a lot and I wish you the best.
Exactly what I needed, thank you so much!!!
That is amazing! Have never thought it might be so simple!
Really well explained! Thanks TECH
Thanks for you comment Marce and thanks for watching. Stay tuned for more videos in our channel.
I almost lost my mind in this Gantt chart thingy. So I thank you because I have already done my work! Such an easy and simple to follow!
I love this tutorial! Can you think of an easy way to modify this so that some of the tasks could run concurrently?
Many thanks, I've been looking for "project management resource plan template" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Seyily Substratal Smasher - (do a search on google ) ? It is an awesome one off product for discovering how to get amazing project management and business templates without the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my colleague got excellent results with it.
THank you!! this is the best and most simplistic gantt I've found...I'm using to create a roadmap.
Thank you very much, this is what I was looking for. Saved me. Thumbs up!
How simple is that! good explanation and thank you, now I got my Gantt Chart!
Amazing, thank you so much, this really helped me a lot, stay blessed
I have been struggling to understand formulating gant charts but this is an excellent video. thank you.
concerns regarding saturdays and sundays? what if there is now work on these days? how do you adjust? thanks
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded. IF there is work on some of those days you may need add a cutout with an OR function or XOR.
@@Daeon108 Hi Daeion - this works - but then in the startdate / enddate how can i make the calculation - now it takes out the weekends, so i did a test with 7 working days, and since there are no weekends anymore it only shows 5 workingdays - you have maybe a solution for this too? Super gratefull for your help!
fantastic, just what I needed. BTW; I needed weeks instead of days, very easy to change; just used day+7 for the colums and added a row with WEEKNUMBER above it. Again, fantastic tutorial.
Hello, I am currently trying to make one in weeks as the project goes over 8 months, however when I follow his explanations the chart is difficult to read because of the many days. Can you help me on this, please?
Hi, how to skip certain date?
Can u teach me how to use the formula.. ty
A very impressive tutorial! Many thanks for the demonstration...
Thanks so much! How do you set the work week for MON-FRI?
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded.
@@Daeon108 Hi Daeion, this works perfectly! but now its doesnt count all the days - ex if there are 17 workingdays only 5 blocks are shown and it doesnt continue after the weekend - do you have a solution for this please?
Thank you so much for the simple and clear explanation. God bless you
Thankyou so far,
but I would like to consider the 2 day weekend where no work can be carried out
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded.
You are so kind sharing your excel files
How do I delete Saturday, Sundays, and Holidays from the construction schedule? I am just trying to create work days from Monday through Friday.
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Use =workday() formula
Peter did you figure this out? I’m trying now myself
@MrLittleman32 - where do you add the formula to exclude Saturday, sundays, and holidays
Thanks for this, this vid made it easier for me to understand who is still exploring excel
That’s good to hear Elaijha. That’s the purpose of my videos. You can also download the files from www.theexcelchallenge.com
Thanks for watching,
T-E-CH
Thanks, it was helpful. Could you please advise how to deal with weekend when no task activity will happen.
Hello Vaibhav, I'm glad you found this video helpful.
In regards of weekends, use the recommendation I put in the example but customize per your needs. For example, in the top of the table where I put the whole 31 days of the month, simply enter weekdays and skip weekends. Give it a try and that should help. Let me know if you need more help.
For example, if you want to use July of 2017, your top header would show July 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31.
Thanks for explanation. Agree that skipping weekend in the header would solve this issue. But is there any trick where weekends are included in the header and still the tasks are shown excluding weekends?
I think you can customize your Gantt chart, combining the formula IF that showed in the example with the formula WEEKDAY.
The formula WEEKDAY can identify Saturdays and Sundays, just combine that with IF and that should do the job.
Trust that helps.
incase the below didnt help, starting each function off as =workday will select only dates with weekdays
Great instructional video, well done. I do have one question; how do you eliminate weekends within the schedule? As it stands now your example works as if you are working every day, seven days a week.
Logical error in calculating the project duration. The start and end dates need to be inclusive or you're gonna always be off by 1.
Actually that's cool, finishing 1day before deadline gives you enough time to reconcider and perfect your work or just Rest.
Every step worked perfectly. Thank You!
Sorry this doesn’t compute. For example the demolition task is 4 days but 5 days are highlighted on the timeline. Project duration is different to the days on task (even taking into account that you start next task on next day)
Hello Richard. I'm afraid you're right. I made a mistake in the 2:30 mark, where I should have entered a -1 in the formula. Using the same example you are using, if I am counting May 1 as day 1, and the task duration is 4 days, then the end date should be May 4. The formula should read =D6+C6-1 instead of =D6+C6
That's an easy fix. Sorry about the mistake. I hope you still were able to learn something new from the video.
Thanks for your comment.
T-E-CH
Haha, sat there for five minutes thinking wth, and of course, started to think is this weekends?, is it me?....thanks for posting ;)
Once I used the new formula (D6+C6-1). The formula at 5:17 doesnt work. Help
Also, your Project duration formula would change from =E2-D2 to =E2-D2+1...
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In 1st task (demolition), the task duration is 4, but in time line it fills 5 box (from Jun 1 to Jun 5). As one green cell shows 1 day, so as per that, there should be only 4 cells to be filled with green. So is there any changes? Or correction?
1. Maybe Weekend comes within.
2.After formula )-1 it works
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how to exclude weekends from the timeline?
You need to use the workday function. Instead of +1 (at 8:26) you use =workday(G5,1). This will automatically calculate out the weekends. You also have the added benefit of figuring in holidays that need to be excluded.
seems the easiest way to make these gantt charts!! nice work!!
Can you provide link in the description to download this file?
Hello Sravan,
Please send me an email to theexcelchallenge@gmail.com and I will send you the file. I don’t have a portal yet for viewers to download the files but that is something I have in mind for the future.
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Great video. I used the freeze pane in place just in case i am working on a larger project. That way you can move left or right of the timeline with ease.
Hello sir, love your chart, my issue is my chart is over a 8 month period and when I use the Min function it picks the lowest month value not the earliest date, ideas please.
No worries my mistake, it worked thanks!
Hello Shawn. It is good to hear you loved the chart. I see you've resolved the issue. If you ever want me to check out your spreadsheet, I'll be glad to do that if you email me at theexcelchallenge@gmail.com
Thanks for watching.
Shawn, I'm glad you resolved the issue. If it's worth for the community to know how you resolve it, I invite you to please share the solution, so others can get that knowledge too. Just a thought...
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Hello Shawn;
I'm struggling with the same initial problem you had, I see you've managed to win, please assist me champ.
Hello Marcus. Try this:
Refer back to the video at the 8:28 mark where I show a formula F5+1. In my example, +1 means next day.
For your project, do everything the same but instead of F5+1 type F5+7. In this case, +7 means next week.
Then simply fill the formula to the right the same way I do in the 8:35 mark.
And finally, enter your time duration in column C and your dates in column D.
This will resolve your issue and you will be able to present your 5-month project in a one-pager or in one-screen.
I trust this answers your question.
Thanks for watching and I hope you check out our other videos.
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Once I seen this video in a minute then subscribed immediately. Very good job and useful video.
Every time I try this exact same formula, excel tells me my formula is incorrect?
so do I
dont use control F4 to lock the F5 ,D6E6, use the dollar sign instead
Formula to lock is
=If(AND(F$5>=$D6,F$5
very clear and simple teaching. thank you very much
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REMARKABLE! Huge help, thanks for your effort!
Your TECH-018 is amazing !!! help me setting a project for legal clinics in no time ! Thanks
This tutorial has been so helpful! thankyou so much!
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Amazing, very simple way to make Gantt chart. Thanks
Thank tou! I found what I was looking for for long time.
You are God's sent. Thank you very much. Was struggling on that for weeks. In 9 mins you saved me.
Do you have any gatt chart with start date , finish date, start and actual finish date combine? Would be really helpfull
Hello @sarona7721.
Try my video TECH-018
You can also download the files for free at www.theexcelchallenge.com
Enjoy!
Very clever way to create a Gantt chart!!
THANKYOU!!!!!! this was exactly what I was looking for