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Using templates

Using templates

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Using templates

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- Sometimes people ask me "hey Chris, please can you send me "an Excel template for a Gantt chart?" And I think, well, not really, because what would it have on it? The tasks down the side have to be theirs and the dates across the top have to be theirs. So what can I send them? I think next time I get this request, I might just send them a blank page, a completely empty Excel workbook. But actually, to be fair, it can be worth keeping a master template for future similar projects. Once you've done a project, similar ones in the future can start to become a process as you use the same plan next time with just the dates changed. Or you could use the most complicated one as your template. And then for each repeat project, you can delete the bits you don't need. But the main thing is keep it simple. Don't have lots of complicated templates for people with automatic macros and stuff because then most people won't understand…

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