A project timeline built from the calendar you already keep.
Time runs across the page, your events become bars down it. No project tool to buy, no plan to maintain twice — the appointments and all-day events already in Outlook are the plan.
Who reaches for this one
Anyone running work that has phases and deadlines but does not warrant project software: a build or refurbishment, a campaign, a rollout, a season of events. The people in the room recognise the picture immediately.
Structure your plan, not just list it
Mark single days as milestones so they print as diamonds. Promote an event to a main event and let the ones under it indent as sub-events. Draw arrows between bars to show what waits for what, and let the chart highlight the chain that decides the end date.
Set the window and the detail
Choose how many months the timeline spans, mark today with a line, keep or hide weekends, and turn day gridlines on when the plan is measured in days rather than months.
Paper it is made for
A4, A3, Letter and Tabloid. Landscape is the natural orientation; A3 or Tabloid is what to print when the chart goes on the wall and people stand in front of it.
Want the same span as a calendar instead? The yearly layout shows the months as columns of days rather than bars — better when people need to find a date, rather than see how long things take.
Every layout prints from classic Outlook, new Outlook, Outlook on the web, Mac and Teams — and from the browser without Outlook at all. Same engine, same paper.
See the other layouts