Gantt plan with Excel export

• 6 phases
• 20 tasks
• 3 milestones
• 23 dependencies
• About 15 weeks
• Updated October 2, 2026

How do you download it as an .xlsx file?

Open the preview, click Export and choose Excel. The file downloads straight away, with no account and nothing to install, and it is built in your browser, so the plan is not sent anywhere to make it.

That copy carries the template's sample dates. To get a file with your own dates, copy the plan first:

1. Click Use template. You sign up with an email address if you have not already. Ganttile is free, with no card and no trial.
2. Check the start date. The plan lands in your account starting on the coming Monday, with every link in place. Drag the first bars if your project starts later.
3. Edit it on the chart. Rename tasks, stretch bars and add rows. Turn on Auto schedule under Settings and the linked tasks follow.
4. Export it again. Export, then Excel, and the file is named after the project with today's date, so older copies do not get mixed up with the new one.

The same Export menu also writes a PDF, a PNG image and a Microsoft Project XML file, for the people who want the picture or use Project.

What is in the Excel file, and what is not?

The file is the plan as a table: one row per task, with the phases as bold rows above their tasks and grouped, so Excel's outline buttons fold each phase away. It is not a drawing of the chart, so there are no bars and no arrows in it.

The columns follow the chart. Once the plan is in your account, the columns menu on the chart switches End time on and off alongside the others, and whatever is showing when you export is what goes into the file.

To draw bars in Excel, first add a timeline grid to the right of the task table, with one date in each column heading. Then apply conditional formatting across the grid so a cell is coloured when its heading date falls between the task start and finish. You will also need to extend the grid when the project grows. The Excel chart instructions show the setup; the exported workbook does not build it for you.

What does the office move plan cover?

Everything from agreeing the budget to handing back the keys of the old office, in six phases that overlap the way a real move does.

Why an office move instead of a blank grid?

Because a blank grid of Phase 1 and Task 1 rows teaches you nothing about how the dates hang together, and those relationships are easy to overlook in an empty spreadsheet. A move has a fixed date everything converges on, suppliers you wait for rather than work with, and one chain of tasks that quietly decides the date.

Every name in the plan can be changed, so you can rename the phases for a different project and keep the structure. If your project looks nothing like a move, the project schedule and the simple Gantt chart download to Excel the same way.

Which wait decides the move date?

The internet line. Business lines often take a month or more to install, so the plan orders it as soon as the lease is signed. Even then, it leaves only about a week of room before move day starts to slip.

• Waiting bars are long and light. The internet line and the furniture order run for weeks but carry an hour or two of effort in the Estimate column. The bar is the supplier's lead time, not anyone's workload.
• The furniture has more room than it looks. Its four-week lead time ends about two weeks before move day, so a late delivery is a nuisance rather than a new date.
• Move day is the only date that matters to everyone. The packing, the network and the furniture all link to it, so the chart shows which of them could push it.

To see it happen, copy the plan, turn on Auto schedule under Settings and stretch the internet line by two weeks. The network install and move day move with it. A spreadsheet can also recalculate linked dates with formulas, but you have to build and maintain those relationships yourself.

When is the spreadsheet the better home for the plan?

When the plan barely changes, when someone needs columns a Gantt chart does not have, such as cost codes or a budget per line, or when your organisation simply runs on Excel files and nobody will open anything else. In those cases, use the download as the starting point and keep it in Excel.

The trip only goes one way, though. Ganttile does not import spreadsheets, so if you edit the file in Excel, those changes stay there. For a plan that moves every week, edit it on the chart and export a fresh copy whenever someone asks. There is more on that choice in spreadsheet or Gantt tool, and if your project runs for months rather than weeks, the monthly Gantt chart lays six of them out.