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Discover how to create Progress Bars in Excel (Step-by-Step). This is going to be an answer to how to create progress bars in Excel with conditional formatting.
Simply to put it, how To Create Excel Progress Bar Charts. All these without using VBA.

Progress bars are an effective visual tool that can be used to represent the completion status of a task or project. In Microsoft Excel, you can easily create progress bars to track the progress of your work or to present data in a visually appealing way. With a few simple steps, you can create progress bars that accurately represent the percentage of completion for a project, and customize the appearance to fit your needs. In this article, we will provide a step-by-step guide on how to create progress bars in Excel, allowing you to better organize and present your data.

Here are the steps outlined in this video.

Add Checkbox
1) Developer ~ Insert ~ Checkbox (Form Control)
2) Insert checkbox
3) Align Check box to cell C4
4) Right-click check box ~ Edit Text
5) Delete text (press Delete key), and click on any cell.
6) Right-click ~ Format Control...
7) Control tab
8) Set Cell link to $C4
9) OK
10) Select cell C4
11) Home ~ Font ~ White
12) Apply to all rows
13) Repeat steps

Progress Bar
1) Select cell B2
2) =COUNTIF(C4:C13,TRUE)/COUNTA(A:A)
3) Ctrl + Shift + %
4) Home ~ Style ~ Conditional Formatting
5) Data Bars ~ More Rules
6) Type "Number" (min), "Number" (max)
7) Value 0 (min), 1 (max)
8) Fill "Gradient Fill"
9) Color "Green"
10) OK


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Transcript
00:00By utilizing a progress bar and a checkbox, you can develop a task tracking tool in the following
00:05way. First of all, let's introduce a checkbox here. Let's click on C4 and go to developer tab.
00:11If this developer tab is not available, you can make it visible by going right click anywhere on
00:15the ribbon here. Customize the ribbon and make sure that the check on the developer is turned
00:21on like this. Once that's done, this will be visible. Click on insert form control and there's
00:27a checkbox there. We don't want active X, we're going to use form control. Click on it and place
00:32the checkbox somewhere near C4 like this. Then reposition it nicely so it's somewhere in the
00:39middle of cell C4 and right click on it, edit text and press delete on your keyboard a few times so
00:45that you can get rid of the text next to the next to the checkbox here. And after that, click on
00:50anywhere on the cell and the description next to the checkbox is gone. Now you have to associate this
00:56checkbox to the cell C4. Right click on the checkbox here like this and from the context menu, you're
01:02going to select format control. In here, you want to click on the controls tab and on the cell link,
01:09you click on it, you're going to click on C4 like this and it should come up like that and click OK.
01:16Now what you did with that cell link is that when you click on this, you can see the true and false
01:21populating on cell C4 but we don't want to see the the the text true and false I guess so you're
01:29going to have to change the font color to white. Go to home font and then click on white here and it's
01:34gone. When you click on it, those text doesn't appear. Now you're going to have to propagate the
01:39characteristic of C4 all the way down to C13 this way. Click on it and drag it. But there's one thing you
01:47haven't done yet. You can right click on this guy and go format control. You can see that every one
01:53of the checkbox is still associated with C4. When you click on this guy, you can see everything goes
01:58turned on and off. So you got to make it individual. Right click on the checkbox format control and then
02:04you go controls and in cell link, you're going to have to select each individual cell like this.
02:11I'm going to fast forward here.
02:28Once the checkbox are ready, let's click on B2 to add the progress bar. Enter the following formula
02:36and you can see it comes up with number one. So if you
02:39remove the checkbox, you can see that it goes in fraction. Let's change this into percentage by
02:43holding ctrl shift percent. Now it shows in percentage. So you're going to click on this guy here. Go
02:51formatting, data bar and then after that, you've got more rules. In here, you're going to change the
02:57minimum to number and the maximum to number and make sure that the minimum is zero to indicate false
03:05and the maximum is one to indicate true. I'm going to make this into a gradient field. So it's nice
03:11looking gradient and you can select any color you want
03:17and then click OK. And you can now see the progress bar. So if you remove the checkbox,
03:22you can see that the progress bar changes accordingly. And if you add more checkbox,
03:27the progress bar changes accordingly as well.

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