We considered 1 week as 5 days. Therefore, we need to multiply cell E10 by 1.4 and write it into the formula. As a result, the final form of the formula will be as follows: =AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
Hey Kenji! Great Lesson as always :) I noticed that when I apply 'Networkdays()' in the 'Days' cell, the final 'dark green fill' doesn't get tabulated properly. I switched to simple subtraction of 'end date' - 'start date' and the fill works perfectly.
the final "dark green fill" didn't work for me either but your comment inspired me to figure out what the issue was. So apperently the rule we created for the dark green fill didn't take weekends in account. So we need to modify the formula =AND(H$10>=$C12, H$10
We considered 1 week as 5 days. Therefore, we need to multiply cell E10 by 1.4 and write it into the formula. As a result, the final form of the formula will be as follows: =AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
Kenji: Outstanding! Very helpful. Thank you. However, for those of us who actually practice project management, there are a few items missing in many Excel Gantts. Tasks often need to include one of the following: Finish-to-Start (FS): Task A must be complete before Task B begins. Finish-to-Finish (FF): Task A must be complete before Task B can be complete. Start-to-Start (SS): Task A must have started before Task B can start. Start-to-Finish (SF): Task A must have started before Task B can finish Any ideas about how to include this? 🙄😀
I did not have the "freeze pane" in my Gantt chart. Makes it much more appealing now. This was an awesome video and your speaking tone was spot on and easy to follow along.
The percentage status is per week or part of a week. It's either 100% or 0% of a week. There's another technique that requires a lot of formulas and some coding.
this is very good. i have been doing this manually. draw and update the bar chart manually. i got 2 problems with this template: No. 1: when my starting date for an activity is in the middle of the of the week. the schedule marking in green show the following week. No. 2. if my starting date and finished date fall in the middle of the week, the green schedule does not appear at all.
I have the same problem(s) and I haven't figured out how to fix it. I concluded that: if start of the week is 29-07-24 but the start of task is 1-08-24 it is somehow not considered greater than or equal to 29-07-24... :(
Hi Kenji. Thanks for this, really awesome!!! Just one point if the end date exactly matches with the date of the calendar then the last cell doesn't take the green color due to this minus 1 in the formula. Could you please check and suggest how can I clear it? Appreciate!
I had the same problem, but seemed to have solved it by adding +1 to the day counting formula. So the number of days are correct. Otherwise it seems to now count first or last day. 1 day activities show 0 days etc. So in column for Days I write: =IF(C11="";"";D11-C11+1) So adding the +1 before last ) compared to video.
This is brilliantly executed; informative, concise, yet thorough-not to mention polished. Thanks very much taking the time, it's been extremely helpful.
Hello Kenji thank you very much. How about if you want to revise the end date while still reflecting the original end date? Example you want to extend the end date by 2 more weeks. Thank you for noticing..
Thanks for this video, seems there is issue in formula. week numbers are derived by adding +7 for each week, however for progress you have considered only workweek (5 days i.e =AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
We considered 1 week as 5 days. Therefore, we need to multiply cell E10 by 1.4 and write it into the formula. As a result, the final form of the formula will be as follows: =AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
This is really great! Got mine set up! I did notice though that the -1 fix doesn't work for all of the bars. I changed my progress % to all 100 and there was one bar that wasn't showing full. When changed to all 0%, two bars showed a start. Rest of it work great!
Excellent tutorial! The one thing I noticed is that the conditional formatting formula for progress (dark green) doesn't account for the Networkdays formula in the days column. For example, on a 4 week task, when you use networkdays the formula adds 20 days to the start date to measure completion. 20 days is less than 4 weeks so it returns a false value in the last week.
Hi! thank you for this tutorial!!! I have a small question - I would like to use Months instead of Weeks in my planning, but I cant find it. For weeks you need to format Wk #. I tried for months Mo # and Mm #, but it gives me an error. Do you know how can I do it? Thank you in advance
Thank you so very much for the insightful video, this was truly simple and easy to follow. I have just made my first gantt chart with no cheat and I feel proud.
The video was beneficial and very well put together. However, there is one issue that I found. The colored progress bar doesn't correctly reflect the start and end date. Example: Row 11 start date is 19-Jan-2024, and the color bar is showing it starting from Wk 3 instead of Wk 2. Ideas on how to resolve that would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much, sir, but I have a question. If I have an activity for a period of time and there are two days off during that period, what is the equation that I can enter so that the period of implementation of this activity is extended for two additional days?
Is it possible to use a gantt chart over a 5 year projection with the project scenarios, each with various activities? Everything I see is shorter term and wondering if it's Gantt charts have certain timeline limitations. thank you -- Laura
Hi! I have a question. What if you have broken start date and end date, meaning you have 2 sets of dates in a single row. Can you make the progressive filled chart that will adapt to the 2 sets of date?
This is one of the best, or the best tutorial I have ever seen for that kind of stuff... great job. You're really informing and smooth.... great job.... thx for that. was looking for such a video for a long time...
@kenji, Thank you for the wonderful video. I have a question wherein my start date and end date does not have either monday or friday assuming my project starts on monday then the gantt chart does not show bars shown in the right mapped to the week in green color. Please assist. Thank you
why does mine not fully coloring in even when it's 100%? ex. end date is June 14, and the light green bar is under Jun 14, only the previous bar is colored in in dark green.
For MAC users, you need to select new rule --> classic --> use a formula... (for the conditional formatting part with the dynamic slides) and use ; rather than ,
I am having trouble getting the conditional formatting of the green bar to work when the start and end date is the same day since a task is completed in one day? Any thoughts?
I'm trying to do the same as you but number months! instead of weeks. what do i put in the format cells - custom ???I tried mm instead of wk # but that just gives the month not the number of months???? HELLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Thanks for this tutorial super helpful for a task i got at work related to PM :)
Hi thanks for the video, works well overall. Still have some problem the %completion is not working fine with small tasks( day task) hoe can I fix that
Hi, can someone please explain to me how we got the percentage column to oscillate based on the percentage? In the video it's cut and i didn't get that. 🙏
Hi Kenji, This is great, but it was working well only for a short time after few days when multiple people edited the sheet the progress 100% does not fill all green but only the no. of working days, for example if the progress is 100% for 5 days of work it is filling only 3 days with green as there are only 3 working days, how to fix that?
I think you would another columns Proposed Start date/End Date and Actual Start date/End and then do these formulas and conditional formatting again. I am really not sure what would that be I think something along the line wherein it doesn't change colors if Both dates are same but show different color if it is different
I run into an issue where i want to use the netwokdays() function tin order to not count the weekends but the right side schedule does (project start date +7, +7, +7, etc). So eventually depending on yhe number of weeks the task is i will begin to lose the conditional formatted cells representing my percentage complete
I have followed your video to do the grantt chat for the progress bar to indicate diff colour for the completion. However, if I use networkdays ( my formula is : =AND(I$7>=$D9,I$7
The most intelligible Gantt Chart tutorial I´ve seen by far, thanks a lot Kenji, great job!
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Thank you so much really fun learning this. In the formula =EN(H$7>=$C10;H$7
same here :) thanks man!
In the above formula I'm not being able to clear the "$" symbol
We considered 1 week as 5 days. Therefore, we need to multiply cell E10 by 1.4 and write it into the formula. As a result, the final form of the formula will be as follows:
=AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
@@furkanyildirim3644 Thank you, I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why it wouldn't work for values above 50%.
Can you explain how to calculate the progress figures; it looked like you just entered random numbers. Thank you!
This is the most straightforward Gantt chart I’ve come across. I completed it and felt very accomplished. Thank you.
Hey Kenji! Great Lesson as always :) I noticed that when I apply 'Networkdays()' in the 'Days' cell, the final 'dark green fill' doesn't get tabulated properly. I switched to simple subtraction of 'end date' - 'start date' and the fill works perfectly.
Thank you! Awesome that you figured that out 👍
Excel file link ..pls share
the final "dark green fill" didn't work for me either but your comment inspired me to figure out what the issue was. So apperently the rule we created for the dark green fill didn't take weekends in account. So we need to modify the formula =AND(H$10>=$C12, H$10
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Hi the progress bar and timeline doesnt coordinates when you use network days, can you please tell how to fix it?
We considered 1 week as 5 days. Therefore, we need to multiply cell E10 by 1.4 and write it into the formula. As a result, the final form of the formula will be as follows:
=AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
Kenji: Outstanding! Very helpful. Thank you. However, for those of us who actually practice project management, there are a few items missing in many Excel Gantts. Tasks often need to include one of the following:
Finish-to-Start (FS): Task A must be complete before Task B begins.
Finish-to-Finish (FF): Task A must be complete before Task B can be complete.
Start-to-Start (SS): Task A must have started before Task B can start.
Start-to-Finish (SF): Task A must have started before Task B can finish
Any ideas about how to include this? 🙄😀
I too have a problem with designing this in the excel Gantts Chart
In lieu of any better solution (and I'm sure there is one), I just manually decide on start and end dates for those relative tasks
Thank you, Kenji! This video was a life saver. Really well explained. I was able to create a project plan so easily. Much gratitude to u!
Thanks!
again, I find my interest to learn excel, after listening you. thank you
that's awesome to hear thank you!
great video, thank you. i also had some issues using network days. is there a solution? can you create predecessors or dependants?
Thank you, Kenji, I wish I had found your channel sooner.
It was a breakthrough for me,
So easy way to understand and creating a gantt chart. Thank you.
That's awesome to hear thank you for your comment :)
This the 1/3 excel gantt chart video I seen and tested that actually works. Great work keep it up.
Thanks
Thank you so much, just a questions, the %completion not working fine with small duration tasks, like say the task is 7 days or so with weekly scale
or small sub task just for 1 day
I did not have the "freeze pane" in my Gantt chart. Makes it much more appealing now. This was an awesome video and your speaking tone was spot on and easy to follow along.
Thank you for the great explanation; If the number of days is
The percentage status is per week or part of a week.
It's either 100% or 0% of a week.
There's another technique that requires a lot of formulas and some coding.
this is very good. i have been doing this manually. draw and update the bar chart manually. i got 2 problems with this template:
No. 1: when my starting date for an activity is in the middle of the of the week. the schedule marking in green show the following week.
No. 2. if my starting date and finished date fall in the middle of the week, the green schedule does not appear at all.
I have the same problem(s) and I haven't figured out how to fix it. I concluded that: if start of the week is 29-07-24 but the start of task is 1-08-24 it is somehow not considered greater than or equal to 29-07-24... :(
does anyone know the solution?
Check your Conditional Formatting formula as well as the area it Applies to. Mine changed itself and I had to correct it before it worked.
Same problem and dont know how to resolve this?
Hi I could resolve this using this formula. =AND(I$6>=$D8-(WEEKDAY($D8,2)+1),I$6
This video deserves more likes and more views, awesome content
Hi Kenji. Thanks for this, really awesome!!! Just one point if the end date exactly matches with the date of the calendar then the last cell doesn't take the green color due to this minus 1 in the formula. Could you please check and suggest how can I clear it? Appreciate!
I had the same problem, but seemed to have solved it by adding +1 to the day counting formula. So the number of days are correct. Otherwise it seems to now count first or last day. 1 day activities show 0 days etc. So in column for Days I write: =IF(C11="";"";D11-C11+1) So adding the +1 before last ) compared to video.
This is brilliantly executed; informative, concise, yet thorough-not to mention polished. Thanks very much taking the time, it's been extremely helpful.
can you provide a downloadable link for this Gantt chart ?
Hello Kenji thank you very much. How about if you want to revise the end date while still reflecting the original end date? Example you want to extend the end date by 2 more weeks. Thank you for noticing..
Thanks.Great job. I completed the Gantt chart and am very excited to implement it. You are excellent, sir
Thank you helps a lot! What can I add to my function so weekends don't become highlighted on gantt by the dates for start and end?
Omg, how did you become such a genius at such a young age. Awesome! Thanks!
A great lesson! Thank you Kenji for the perfect instruction.
Thanks Kenji, I got one now which is very important to track all project activities... Many thanks
Thank you Kenji. Great tutorial. I am a complete Xcel Beginner, so I don't know where these formulas all come from. How can I learn more about that?
Thanks for this video, seems there is issue in formula. week numbers are derived by adding +7 for each week, however for progress you have considered only workweek (5 days i.e =AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
=AND(H$7 >= $C10, H$7
We considered 1 week as 5 days. Therefore, we need to multiply cell E10 by 1.4 and write it into the formula. As a result, the final form of the formula will be as follows:
=AND(H$7>=$C10;H$7
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Thanks. Very helpful for making a quick gantt chart for simply tracking projects without having to use MS Project.
Thank you for this awesome tutorial, I know have a beautiful Gnatt chart thanks to your guidance 😁😁
This is really great! Got mine set up! I did notice though that the -1 fix doesn't work for all of the bars. I changed my progress % to all 100 and there was one bar that wasn't showing full. When changed to all 0%, two bars showed a start. Rest of it work great!
Actually, removing the -1 is what causes the two green bars but the rest show no progress
Just used Kenji's explanation to make my first construction timeline. Easy to understand and translate to my own works
Thanks!!!!!!!
I love how the "Most replayed" slider bar looks like a mountain range with the amount of people going back to see how you did stuff.
Thank you for the amazing content, very helpful in making the Gantt Chart easier with the simple explanation in this video, god bless you Kenji 😇💚
Thanks Kenji!! This was really educational for me.
Excellent tutorial! The one thing I noticed is that the conditional formatting formula for progress (dark green) doesn't account for the Networkdays formula in the days column. For example, on a 4 week task, when you use networkdays the formula adds 20 days to the start date to measure completion. 20 days is less than 4 weeks so it returns a false value in the last week.
Hi! thank you for this tutorial!!! I have a small question - I would like to use Months instead of Weeks in my planning, but I cant find it. For weeks you need to format Wk #. I tried for months Mo # and Mm #, but it gives me an error. Do you know how can I do it? Thank you in advance
Thanks Kenji, it was total fun to learn this from your video, keep progressing and if possible can we show the delayed task in this gantt chart
Thank you so very much for the insightful video, this was truly simple and easy to follow. I have just made my first gantt chart with no cheat and I feel proud.
Do you have example for gannt per hour over multiple days
Please, which formula did you use for the progress, that converted it to percentage or did you manually type the figures?
The video was beneficial and very well put together. However, there is one issue that I found. The colored progress bar doesn't correctly reflect the start and end date. Example: Row 11 start date is 19-Jan-2024, and the color bar is showing it starting from Wk 3 instead of Wk 2. Ideas on how to resolve that would be greatly appreciated.
does anyone know ?
Agree
Great work done. It was fantastic one. However, when I got to the percentage side, I was getting True throughout. What could be the problem?
WOW. solved so many doubts in such a short video
Thank you very much, sir, but I have a question. If I have an activity for a period of time and there are two days off during that period, what is the equation that I can enter so that the period of implementation of this activity is extended for two additional days?
Thank you so much for that insightful easy to follow tutorial.
Thank you for watching :)
Kenji, How do you add start and end dates to the chart bars? for each project timeline.
Is it possible to use a gantt chart over a 5 year projection with the project scenarios, each with various activities? Everything I see is shorter term and wondering if it's Gantt charts have certain timeline limitations. thank you -- Laura
Hi! I have a question. What if you have broken start date and end date, meaning you have 2 sets of dates in a single row. Can you make the progressive filled chart that will adapt to the 2 sets of date?
Thanks Much for explaining with lot of patience and highlighting about formulas in detail
Very nice and easy to understand tutorial ever..more power to you Kenji.
Thank you! excellent and easy to follow!
This was so useful Kenji, thank you. I have subscribed.
gonna take me some time to wrap my head around this but I like this approach
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awesome video .... most useful video I have ever seen for project management 🙏🙏🙏
I'm having trouble with the If Formula in the Days column. Can you show how to add the IF condition if you're using Networkdays?
you were amazing! And helped save the day for me! Clear, right pace and very articulate!
Thank you!
Hello,
It is very nice and informative video. However, i am facing issues in month timeline as it was not showing proper % marking on the chart.
Thank you, Kenji. That was priceless.
This is one of the best, or the best tutorial I have ever seen for that kind of stuff... great job. You're really informing and smooth.... great job.... thx for that. was looking for such a video for a long time...
@kenji, Thank you for the wonderful video. I have a question wherein my start date and end date does not have either monday or friday assuming my project starts on monday then the gantt chart does not show bars shown in the right mapped to the week in green color. Please assist. Thank you
THANK YOU FOR THIS, IT WAS VERY HELPFUL
Thank you so much ! I do a lot of data analysis and tracking so this is very helpful 👏🏾
why does mine not fully coloring in even when it's 100%? ex. end date is June 14, and the light green bar is under Jun 14, only the previous bar is colored in in dark green.
For MAC users, you need to select new rule --> classic --> use a formula... (for the conditional formatting part with the dynamic slides) and use ; rather than ,
Thanks!
I am having trouble getting the conditional formatting of the green bar to work when the start and end date is the same day since a task is completed in one day? Any thoughts?
Excellent tutorial!!
I'm trying to do the same as you but number months! instead of weeks. what do i put in the format cells - custom ???I tried mm instead of wk # but that just gives the month not the number of months???? HELLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Thanks for this tutorial super helpful for a task i got at work related to PM :)
Set the interval to +30 instead of +7.
And change WK# to Mnth #
Great guide and great styling suggestions! This made tackling a new project super easy and relieved a lot of stress! Thank you very much :)
Hi
Trying out your vids for the first time. Getting stuck with date calculations etc. The word value keeps coming up after formula. Can you help?
Anyone with an answer, my date calculations keeps coming up as VALUE!
Thank you! This video was very helpful and informative
Hi thanks for the video, works well overall.
Still have some problem the %completion is not working fine with small tasks( day task) hoe can I fix that
Simply the best🙌🏾
Hi, can someone please explain to me how we got the percentage column to oscillate based on the percentage? In the video it's cut and i didn't get that. 🙏
Thanks for the video. How can I remove Saturday and Sunday if I do it on days?
Thank you very much for thid dynamic tool! It is very helpful in case other PM tools are not available.
Thank you for such a brilliant and detailed explaination!
hi Kenji, Don't you sell this spreadsheet? I would love to learn how to do it but unfortunately I don't have time.
8:32 the equation AND is not working for me, did exact same formula,=AND(G$2>=$C5,G$2
you shoud use ; instead of ,
Very very helpful Kenji!!!!
Great video! Thanks!
sir, how progress of 50% etc was filled?? how to calculate progress at 2:57 ??
How do you add the IF formula to the NETWORK formula together?
Hi sir, Just want to know what if the task time is less then a week like 1 or 2 days?
I FOUND THE SOLUTION!!!! YOU SHOULD USE THIS FORMULA --> =AND(H$7>=$C10-(WEEKDAY($C10;2)+1);H$7=$C10;H$7
Is there a downloadable link ??
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how do i autofill the wk with the numbers, i do not have a pound sign on my PC, I'M NOT getting that part
Hi Kenji, This is great, but it was working well only for a short time after few days when multiple people edited the sheet the progress 100% does not fill all green but only the no. of working days, for example if the progress is 100% for 5 days of work it is filling only 3 days with green as there are only 3 working days, how to fix that?
I’m having the same issue 😢
Great video!!!
I think you would another columns Proposed Start date/End Date and Actual Start date/End and then do these formulas and conditional formatting again. I am really not sure what would that be I think something along the line wherein it doesn't change colors if Both dates are same but show different color if it is different
This tutorial taught me a lot. Absolute legend!
You are GREAT! Thank you!
I run into an issue where i want to use the netwokdays() function tin order to not count the weekends but the right side schedule does (project start date +7, +7, +7, etc). So eventually depending on yhe number of weeks the task is i will begin to lose the conditional formatted cells representing my percentage complete
I am running into the same issue
I have followed your video to do the grantt chat for the progress bar to indicate diff colour for the completion. However, if I use networkdays ( my formula is : =AND(I$7>=$D9,I$7