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I use the Outlook and Calendar sync features to distribute and collect task information to my team members.

I distribute the EPP Excel file to all team members either by email or I post it in a shared folder.

My team members can edit the EPP excel file and send the changes back to me.

Most of the companies I work for have no PM task management system so EPP allows me to walk onto any project and immediately distribute and collect task information to all team members. Considering that most companies use Excel and Outlook, there is nothing to install on any computer.

In my experience, team members prefer to view task information in Excel and Outlook.

There’s probably a more direct method but one way to achieve this is first set up your table, called A say, then to create the databars, set the min and max formulas equal to defined names Min:=MIN(A[Start])-A[@Start] and Max:=MAX(A[End])-A[@Start]+1. You can copy down individually with the format painter to propagate. After create a separate range for the resources and add a column sparkline to a cell as shown.