Drawing Project Plans - Hints & Tips

Often, the project activity plan is the key element of a Project Plan. By far the best way of presenting them is in the form of time charts.

These notes are an introduction to various tools for doing that, in particular using the WORD drawing tools but also using EXCEL. There is also a brief overview of Project Management software such as Microsoft Project.

The tools covered in this section are:

The last link leads to a section containing some detailed tips for Drawing Charts in Word.

Three Templates are included:

Template WORD Gantt 1 - a template for drawing a Gantt Chart using a WORD table
Template WORD Gantt 2 - a template for drawing a Gantt Chart using Text Boxes
Template EXCEL Gantt - a template for drawing a Gantt Chart using Excel.

Generally, for those adept in the WORD drawing tools, the first three guidelines can lead to some quite impressive charts.