Gantt chart from a task list
Turn a list of jobs with start days and lengths into a Gantt chart, one bar per job, so you can see what overlaps.
In this lesson
- A Gantt chart draws each job as a bar that starts on its start day and is as long as the job takes.
- Build it from a stacked bar chart of the job names, the start days and the lengths in days.
- Leave the finish day out of the chart. The chart puts the length after the start by itself.
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The steps
11 steps: 3 explanations, 6 Do this, 2 questions, then Your turn.
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