Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

Reader Tom saw our previously posted Excel Gantt chart template and said he had a better one to offer. Why a spreadsheet? Tom says: I do most of my project planning in MS Project which is great, ...

There are several ways to add text next to a Gantt chart in Excel. Because Gantt charts are made from modified bar charts, the text that normally appears on the chart will not always be relevant for ...