Gantt Chart Maker for Excel by Uniform Software Limited is a project planning and scheduling tool that brings powerful Gantt chart capabilities directly into Microsoft Excel. It lets you create professional, editable Gantt charts from task lists, manage task dependencies, track project progress, coordinate resources, account for weekends and holidays, and present project schedules clearly—all while keeping your project data in Excel.
Instead of manually drawing bars, shapes, and timelines or maintaining complicated spreadsheet formulas, Gantt Chart Maker automatically generates and updates the Gantt chart as you work with your task data.
It is designed for project managers, team leaders, engineers, consultants, business professionals, and anyone who needs an efficient way to plan and communicate projects using Excel.
Create Gantt Charts Directly in Excel
Gantt Chart Maker works inside the desktop version of Microsoft Excel, so there is no need to move your project data into a separate project-management application.
Create a task list with information such as task names, dates, durations, resources, categories, and dependencies. The application uses that information to automatically generate a visual Gantt chart.
When you change task information, the chart can be updated automatically, making it much easier to maintain an accurate project schedule.
Key benefits include:
• Generate Gantt charts from Excel task lists
• Keep project data and charts together in an Excel workbook
• Automatically update timelines when task information changes
• Organize tasks using parent-child relationships and WBS-style structures
• Add custom columns and display their information as chart labels
• Use Excel formulas to create customized task information
• Work with familiar Excel formatting and editing tools
Manage Task Dependencies
Real-world projects rarely consist of independent tasks. One task may need to finish before another can begin, or several activities may need to progress together.
Gantt Chart Maker provides a dedicated task editor for defining relationships between tasks. You can create predecessor and successor relationships and let the scheduling engine calculate dependent dates.
Supported dependency types include:
• Finish-to-Start
• Start-to-Start
• Finish-to-Finish
• Start-to-Finish
You can also specify lag between dependent tasks.
When an upstream task changes, dependent tasks can be recalculated automatically. This makes it easier to maintain complex schedules without manually adjusting every downstream task.
The dependency system is useful for projects involving multiple phases, teams, milestones, and interconnected activities.
Track Baseline, Planned, and Actual Progress
A project schedule is more useful when you can compare what you originally planned with what is actually happening.
Gantt Chart Maker supports multiple layers of schedule information, allowing you to visualize planned or estimated dates, baseline dates, and actual progress on the same timeline.
This makes it easier to:
• Compare the original project baseline with the current schedule
• Identify schedule delays
• Monitor project progress
• Detect scope or schedule changes
• See where actual execution differs from the original plan
• Communicate project status to stakeholders
Visual comparisons can help project teams identify potential problems before they become larger scheduling issues.
Resource Management and Working Calendars
Project schedules often depend on the availability of people, teams, equipment, or other resources. Gantt Chart Maker allows resources to be assigned to tasks and supports separate working calendars.
You can define:
• Resources
• Weekly rest days
• Holidays
• Different working schedules
• Resource assignments for individual tasks
Holiday and resource information can also be imported from Excel files.
When calculating task dates and durations, the application can take non-working days into account, helping you create schedules that better reflect actual working conditions.
This is especially useful for projects involving multiple teams, regions, or different working calendars.
Flexible Timeline Views
Different audiences need different levels of detail. A project team may need a daily schedule, while management may prefer a high-level yearly overview.
Gantt Chart Maker provides multiple timeline scales, including:
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Quarterly
• Half-yearly
• Yearly
You can switch between timeline views to examine project details or present a broader overview.
The application also supports international week-numbering options and configurable date and calendar settings.
Customizable Gantt Chart Templates
Your Gantt chart does not have to look like everyone else's.
Gantt Chart Maker uses editable Excel-based templates, giving you significant control over the appearance of your project charts.
You can customize elements such as:
• Colors
• Fonts
• Row heights
• Column widths
• Task bar styles
• Shapes
• Connectors
• Labels
• Chart layout
• Brand colors
You can create your own templates based on existing templates and adapt them to your organization's visual style.
This is particularly useful when Gantt charts are used in customer presentations, management reports, project proposals, or internal documentation.
Export and Share Project Plans
Project schedules often need to be shared with people who do not need to edit the original Excel workbook.
Gantt Chart Maker provides PDF export capabilities so you can create presentation-ready versions of your project plan.
You can use exported project charts for:
• Project status reports
• Management presentations
• Customer communications
• Project documentation
• Printed schedules
• Email attachments
• Project proposals
The ability to keep the source project in Excel while exporting a clean presentation format provides a convenient workflow for both project teams and stakeholders.
Built for Microsoft Excel Users
One of the main advantages of Gantt Chart Maker is that it extends an application many businesses already use every day: Microsoft Excel.
Rather than requiring users to learn an entirely different project-management environment, the application combines Gantt chart automation with familiar Excel workflows.
Your project information remains in Excel, where you can use standard Excel capabilities such as:
• Cell editing
• Formulas
• Formatting
• Sorting and organizing data
• Custom columns
• Excel templates
• Existing Excel workflows
This makes Gantt Chart Maker particularly suitable for organizations that already rely heavily on Excel for planning and reporting.
Useful for Many Types of Projects
Gantt Chart Maker can be used for a wide range of project-planning scenarios, including:
• Software development
• Engineering projects
• Construction projects
• Product development
• Marketing campaigns
• Consulting projects
• Business planning
• Event planning
• Manufacturing projects
• Research projects
• IT implementation
• Maintenance projects
• Professional services
• Internal business initiatives
Whether you are managing a small project or a schedule containing many interdependent tasks, the application provides tools for organizing, calculating, visualizing, and communicating the schedule.
Why Use Gantt Chart Maker?
Gantt Chart Maker is designed around a simple idea: your project schedule should be easy to create, easy to update, and easy to share.
Instead of spending time manually maintaining graphical elements in Excel, you can concentrate on the project itself.
With Gantt Chart Maker, you can:
• Turn Excel task lists into visual Gantt charts
• Automatically recalculate schedules
• Manage predecessor and successor relationships
• Track baseline versus actual progress
• Assign resources to tasks
• Account for weekends and holidays
• Switch between different timeline scales
• Customize the visual appearance of your charts
• Create reusable Gantt chart templates
• Add custom task information and labels
• Export project plans to PDF
• Keep your project data in familiar Excel workbooks
Microsoft Store and Microsoft Marketplace
Gantt Chart Maker is available through both the Microsoft Store and Microsoft Marketplace.
This gives users convenient purchasing and subscription options depending on how they use Microsoft products.
• Microsoft Store — convenient for users who use a personal Microsoft account.
• Microsoft Marketplace — convenient for organizations and users who use work or school accounts and Microsoft 365 administration.
Having both options can make deployment, purchasing, and subscription management more convenient for different types of users and organizations.
Designed for Desktop Microsoft Excel
Gantt Chart Maker is designed to run with the desktop version of Microsoft Excel on Windows. It is intended for users who want the flexibility of Excel combined with automated Gantt chart generation and project scheduling capabilities.
The application works with locally installed desktop versions of Excel, including Microsoft 365 desktop applications and supported versions of Excel 2016 and later.
A Practical Gantt Chart Solution for Excel
If your organization already uses Excel for project planning, Gantt Chart Maker provides a practical way to turn spreadsheet-based task information into structured, visual project schedules.
It combines automated Gantt chart generation, task dependencies, resource scheduling, working calendars, baseline tracking, customizable templates, flexible timeline views, and PDF export in an Excel-based workflow.
For individuals and organizations that prefer working in Excel but need more capable Gantt chart and project scheduling functionality, Gantt Chart Maker provides a familiar and flexible solution without requiring project data to be maintained in a separate application.
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