Gantt charts illustrate project schedules and, thus, often used by project managers. Project management tools like Microsoft Project are better suited for Gantt charts, but it is easy to create a Gantt chart in Excel following the simple steps.

Default installation of Excel have reasonable presets for chart types and colors, but you can change those defaults according your own preferences.

There are several different Excel features that can make your presentation less boring:

Excel is heavily used by all Microsoft Office users and automatically opened workbooks, customizations of menu, recent documents and start screen allow you to save a lot of time.

There are several useful features in Excel that can help to create your charts, which automatically change visual appearance depending on data.

There are several different charts in Excel that can help you to create a perfect progress illustration.

For some presentations will be interesting to add title that contains changeable data, for example, dependent on volume.

For some presentation of the competition will be more informative to see points that missed to achieve the Goal. This tip is about how to create simple competition chart with residual data.

This tip shows how to create dynamically updated chart labels that depend on value or other cells.

This tip shows how to create simple competition chart using bar chart.