I am 99.9% the picture was created in visio. I have a pdf where that gantt chart breaks across 10 pages. It is nice and pretty. I know the person who did it. Problem is I can't ask her how she did it. I need to create a gantt chart that looks like that. Can anyone help me? I know she imported the data from Excel, which I have done. When I do this, there are so many things that it will not allow me to fix. The column for task is a set size and nothing I do will allow me to change it. There is a column before the task name that will not go into hiding! It will not break across pages - I mean it will but just keeps going and going without having nice breaks like the picture. Any help would be greatly appreciative!
I am using Visio Professional 2016.
That's not Visio chart.
Any idea what it is? The person who made it only uses a few programs and I know Visio is one of them. She is not the most computer literate person.
Project?
Project doesn't have bars and end points that look like that - only Visio does. Project typically looks more like the attached. >:(
You can format a Gantt chart as shown in your picture, but it requires some (a lot of) work and knowledge of Visio's architecture. Wouldn't the best solution be to hire a freelancer?
Estimated time: 1 to 4-5 days, depending on your further requirements.
There's also other software available, but I guess they require the same (or more) time to tweak the output to your needs.
I would be open to other software options, but I haven't found one that lists the tasks like that with the timeline out to side. It does have to be able to import into word nicely.
I figured you could format the Gantt like that in Visio and I have a feeling she was heavily billing the client which is what I don't want to do. Hence, the reason they are hiring me over her. I know it had to have taken her a LOT of time to do that if she did that in Visio as I know how long it took her to do the stuff I do. The main thing is I feel like the Visio Gantt chart is "locked" down and can't get it unlocked to manipulate it.
Quote from: angellisme on June 15, 2017, 07:10:21 PM
Any idea what it is? The person who made it only uses a few programs and I know Visio is one of them. She is not the most computer literate person.
I am pretty sure this is from Primavera software.
-Miki
In V2007, you can stretch the Task column to any width you need. Just click on the task name, the entire column is selected, and you can grab a side to stretch, or you can grab the entire column an place it in a different location. Surprised that V2016 doesn't allow this.
Have you tried just creating a simple, default Gantt chart and experimenting? Perhaps, something in your methodology is locking the width?
Just wondering. It does look a little different than the V2007 edition default configuration...
Wapperdude
I inputted the data from excel because it 153 items. I am not sure if that has anything to do with it. The attachment is what I get. It won't let me make the column larger. It only gives me the cross - I feel like something is locked down and I don't know how to unlock it. I also can't get rid of (or hide) that first column.
That's why I suggested just taking a basic, default Gantt chart. Eliminate all the extraneous factors, and then see if the behavior changes or not. I understand the need because there's a lot of entries. But (1) I only have V2007, and (2) no one else has indicated a similar problem with V2016, so I no direct knowledge and can only suggest things to try to narrow down the possibilities.
The other approach would be to upload a Visio file that has the problem and does not have any proprietary info, to let someone else take a look.
Wapperdude