Time Lines in Microsoft Excel Templates

Charles W. Kann, Gettysburg College

Abstract

Microsoft Excel is extremely useful for many different types of digital scholarship projects. This one looks at the ability of Excel to create time lines for historical projects using a time line developed for project time lines.

The timeline which was developed for this project can be found at http://chuckkann.com/timelines/excel/Mandela.xlsx. You can download this and see the finished product.

A Word file with step-by-step instructions on how to implement this project can be found at http://chuckkann.com/timelines/excel/Mandela.docx. The Microsoft site https://templates.office.com/en-us/Timelines has timeline templates in other formats, but they generally work in a similar fashion to the timeline I am using. So once you have done a time line following these steps, you should be able to handle any Excel formatted time line.

If you do timelines using this document, let me know what you think...

Have fun!