Office Timeline – free timeline maker
Office Timeline – free timeline maker
PowerPoint timeline maker

Create a timeline in PowerPoint fast

Build professional timelines directly on your slides. No design work required.

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Why choose Office Timeline

Executive-ready timelines built directly in PowerPoint

Organize projects by teams with swimlanes

Built for PowerPoint

Create timeline slides directly in your presentation.

Real-time sync keeps timelines up to date

Automatic slide updates

Adjust dates and tasks without reformatting.

Streamline project presentations with Office Timeline

Presentation-ready timelines

Deliver visuals executives instantly understand.

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How it works

Build your PowerPoint timeline in under 2 minutes

  1. Open Office Timeline in PowerPoint: Launch the add-in directly from your PowerPoint ribbon.
  2. Choose your data source: Import from Excel, enter data manually, or start with a template.
  3. Customize your timeline slide: Select colors, layouts, and styles that match your presentation theme.
Choose the version that fits your needs

Which add-in plan is the best fit for you?

For general projects

Lite

Create simple, professional timelines with ease.


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1-yearLitelicense, billed annually

Key features:

  • Make timelines with up to 2 Swimlanes
  • Stylish pre-designed themes
  • Timeline & Swimlane templates
  • Make timelines and Gantt charts
  • Copy & paste from Excel
  • Standard support
  • Free updates

most popular

For projects & programs

Plus

Create customized timelines for impactful project visuals.


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1-yearPluslicense, billed annually

All the features of Lite, and:

  • Import data from Excel
  • Make timelines with an unlimited number of Swimlanes
  • Make roadmaps with Sub-swimlanes
  • Show dependencies & critical path
  • Templates with Sub-swimlanes
  • Show multiple timescales on a timeline

most advanced

For cohesive programs

Expert

Create professional reports with advanced templates, powerful integrations, and planned vs. actual insights.


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1-yearExpertlicense, billed annually

All the features of Plus, and:

  • Stay on brand with custom themes
  • Act early and stay on schedule with Planned vs. Actual
  • Standardize visuals with shared themes
  • Create your own reusable templates
  • Import into custom themes
  • Integrates with Project, Smartsheet, Jira, etc.
  • Premium support
Instant insight

Make PowerPoint timelines your audience actually wants to see

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What customers say

See why professionals love Office Timeline

  • We've used it for long enough that I don't know how we would be able to quickly demonstrate where we are in the project and what the forecast and work streams look like without a tool like Office Timeline.

    Amy Bales
    Amy BalesVP, Project Manager III, BOK Financial
  • Using Office Timeline has saved me heaps of time and allowed me to get the right visualization for our clients, whether that's for an executive board meeting, a SteerCo, or a weekly team update meeting. It's the best tool out there for planning visualization.

    Jamie Christer
    Jamie ChristerFounder & Director, Precision Project Partners
FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Office Timeline

Yes, Office Timeline includes professionally designed timeline templates that you can use directly in PowerPoint. Choose from various styles including Gantt charts, roadmaps, project timelines, and swimlane views. Paid plans offer additional templates with advanced features like sub-swimlanes and dependencies. You can also create and save your own custom templates.

Office Timeline creates native PowerPoint shapes on your slide, but to keep your timeline looking professional, you should use the Edit Timeline window in the Office Timeline ribbon to make changes. This ensures proper formatting and alignment. While you can manually adjust individual PowerPoint shapes directly on the slide, using the Office Timeline editing tools gives you better control over layout, spacing, and automatic updates.

Office Timeline creates timelines directly inside PowerPoint, so there's no need to export. Your timeline is already a PowerPoint slide that's part of your presentation file (.pptx). You can copy timeline slides between presentations, share the entire PowerPoint file, or save it in any PowerPoint-compatible format.

Yes. The tool works directly inside PowerPoint for quick editing and presenting.

Absolutely. The free version includes everything you need to build basic timelines.

Advanced automation, import features, unlimited swimlanes, dependencies, more templates, and extended styling options.

Yes, Office Timeline is designed to be simple for anyone, regardless of design or PM experience. If you can use PowerPoint, you can create professional timelines.
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