Project management with Excel can be a difficult task, especially, when you use the software MS Project. For those who do not want to deal with an extensive Microsoft project may make the first steps with this easy project planning Excel template.
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You may divide the project into subtasks (or activities) and provide it with the date and time. The whole timeline is then plotted on colored background cells of the Excel template. Just chose a background-color for each table cell.
There are up to 5 different activities you can put in the template. You can extend the table for more tasks, of course!
In the screenshot below, you can see an example for January and February.
In the template, there are two spreadsheets for the months of January to June and July to December.
Screenshot of the Project Management Excel Template
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Here you may find this template in XLSX-format for download.
More Project Management Templates
A little research showed that there are other good project management templates to download:
- https://download.cnet.com/project-management-template-for-excel/3000-2076_4-10216152.html?ex=RAMP-3079.2
- Planners and trackers from Microsoft
- Many different project management tools on Vertex24
