Sliceable Gantt Charts in Excel

Updated on: Jun 5th, 2025

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Ann K. Emery of Depict Data Studio teaches you how to make interactive Gantt charts in Microsoft Excel with formulas and conditional formatting.

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

a sliceable 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 Sliceable Gantt Charts in Excel

You can watch the high-level tutorial here:

What’s Inside

0:00 Intro
1:08 The end product: Sliceable 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
14:17 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

More about Ann K. Emery
Ann K. Emery is a sought-after speaker who is determined to get your data out of spreadsheets and into stakeholders’ hands. Each year, she leads more than 100 workshops, webinars, and keynotes for thousands of people around the globe. Her design consultancy also overhauls graphs, publications, and slideshows with the goal of making technical information easier to understand for non-technical audiences.

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