Gantt Chart

Ron

Ron

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We have too many construction, engineers, architect folks here for someone to not be able to help me out and let me quit pulling my hair out.


Ive used an ancient very basic Gantt Excel template for...I dont know since I graduated college.

It works. Its simple. It aint real pretty. Its just like me.

Well now I am budgeting a long range project and I need it condensed down to 1 page for an executive summary. My form and everyone Im finding online in the 5 long minutes Ive searched are day based. So when I need to show 5 year...I need 1,600 cells. What I am trying to find is a template that uses weeks as its base unit of measurement. Months are too long to give the granular detail required, days are too accurate. I need weeks.

Surely this exists before I start writing a bunch of conditional formats and creating the MF'er from scratch?

Help a brother out?
 
shawn said:
In MS Project, right click on the calendar and change the time scale.
Click to expand...

We dont use MS project....unfortunately.
We use a 3rd party PM software that is pretty. But useless.

But I found a work around thats clunky but effective
 
Ron said:
But I found a work around thats clunky but effective
Click to expand...

Photoshop?

I saw you mentioned Excel... it should be easy to do there, since you'd just change whatever you're plugging in for columns to match the scale that you needed.
 
Its a tough dichotomy.
We use a custom PM solution, ground up built for or organization. Its slick. Automates so many tasks that MS Project only reminds.
I love it. But it doesnt integrate or even interface with our front end.

So you have me creating schedules in excel to show a client for a client to agree to and enter into a contract and then no way to incorproate that calendar into our PM software....
Then you have jackasses like me who write purchase order to vendors on word and dont even use the accounting system and GIGO rules
 
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