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How To Create A Timeline in Excel

The document discusses how to create timelines in Excel using SmartArt graphics, scatter plots, and other formatting options. It provides steps to insert a basic or accent timeline using SmartArt, create a timeline from a scatter plot by plotting tasks in sequential order, and additional formatting steps like removing titles, gridlines, and axes to clean up the timeline.

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How To Create A Timeline in Excel

The document discusses how to create timelines in Excel using SmartArt graphics, scatter plots, and other formatting options. It provides steps to insert a basic or accent timeline using SmartArt, create a timeline from a scatter plot by plotting tasks in sequential order, and additional formatting steps like removing titles, gridlines, and axes to clean up the timeline.

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HOW TO CREATE A

TIMELINE IN EXCEL
If you're in the process of planning a project or even just
logging events, learning how to create a timeline in Excel
can be a huge help:
Creating an Excel
Timeline Smart Graphic
Excel has a premade graphic you can use to create
a timeline in Excel. This graphic is part of Excel's
SmartArt collection, and is very easy to use.

To create a SmartArt timeline, select Insert from the


menu, and in the Illustrations group select SmartArt.

In the Choose a SmartArt Graphic window, select


Process from the left pane. You'll see two timeline
options; Basic Timeline and Circle Accent Timeline.
• In the text box that says Type your
text here, you can type a label for
each point in the timeline. This is a
manual process, so it's best for
shorter timelines without too many
elements throughout.

• When you select any cell in the


spreadsheet, the entry pane will
disappear. You can edit the
timeline at any time in the future
with additional entries just by
selecting it and repeating the
process above.

• SmartArt timelines in Excel are


perfect for creating very quick,
Create an Excel Timeline small timelines that you can use to
track simple projects or any plan
From a Scatter Plot that involves a limited number of
events.
The Scatter Plot in excel
lets you plot dots in
sequential order in a chart
1 2 3

you need to create a


Any project needs a spreadsheet that
but before you can
good timeline contains every step
visualize a timeline
in the project as well
as due dates.

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1. At this point you have a pretty good
timeline
■ however there's still additional formatting you need to do to make the timeline
display dates and tasks more clearly.
■ Select the + icon at the upper right corner of the chart to open the Chart Elements
dialogue box. Deselect Chart Title and Gridlines to give the timeline a cleaner look.
■ Next, select the arrow next to Axes, and deselect Primary Vertical to remove the
vertical axis labels from the timeline. This transforms the timeline into just a
horizontal line with dates, and individual tasks represented as dots with a height
defined by your milestones value for that task.
■ Still in Chart Elements, select Error Bars to enable cross error bars for each point.
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