Color a WBS, build a progress dashboard, audit a P6 schedule or generate a Power BI earned value report. Work that used to take an afternoon now takes one click, without ever leaving Excel.
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A complete toolkit for P6 and XER scheduling, WBS management and project visualization. Each one replaces a manual routine that used to take hours.
Automatically color-code WBS levels up to 8 depths. Group/ungroup activities, apply SUM levels, and organize your schedule visually.
FreeDraw professional Gantt charts directly in Excel cells. Supports baseline vs actual bars, milestones, and weekend highlighting.
FreeGenerate Progress Measurement Sheets from your schedule, with planned, actual, and variance percentages calculated automatically.
FreeOne-click dark-themed dashboard with KPI cards, progress charts, activity status doughnut, cost breakdown, and SPI/CPI metrics, all formula-driven.
FreeCreate cumulative S-Curves comparing planned vs actual progress over time. Essential for earned value management.
ProImport a Primavera P6 schedule from an XER file straight into Excel, work on it there, and compile the sheet back into XER format.
FreeAnalyze XER schedules for common issues: open ends, missing logic, negative float, date constraints, and more. Generate detailed reports.
FreeExtract detailed activity information from XER files. Select specific fields to include and generate clean, organized sheets.
FreeSum every activity value up to its WBS parent, level by level, in one click. No manual SUM formulas to build or repair.
FreeSplit a WBS hierarchy into one column per level, ready for filters, pivot tables and reports.
FreeSelect or delete every bar on a Gantt in one action: all bars, baseline bars only, or secondary bars only.
FreeFill down, change case, trim spaces, and copy a column from any workbook to the end of your sheet.
FreeAdvanced tools for senior planners and project controls professionals.
Compare two XER files side-by-side. Identify added, deleted, and modified activities between revisions.
Automatically detect and resolve out-of-sequence activities in your schedule.
Split in-progress activities at the data date for accurate schedule updates.
Distribute planned quantities across schedule periods using bell curve, front-loaded, or linear methods.
Resource and quantity histograms with period buckets. Visualize manpower, cost, or quantity distribution over time.
Days fraction fix, POBs cleaner, and other utilities to clean and standardize your XER data.
Advanced WBS coloring with selectable layout styles, for schedules that have to look right in front of a client.
Build a progress measurement sheet with earned units from a baseline and an update XER. Percent complete follows P6's own Duration, Physical or Units rule.
A print-ready lookahead Gantt for any number of weeks, straight from an XER: daily calendar, WBS bands, planned bars, earned progress, milestones and the data date line.
Turn an XER or an activity table into a P6-ready resource loading: the assignment list, the activity by resource matrix, and the columns P6 imports.
Build the WBS, resources, activity codes and activity list in Excel templates, import codes and WBS from an existing XER, then export the result as an XER.
Extract every calendar definition from an XER file into Excel, so working days and exceptions can be read at a glance.
From two XER files to a finished earned value dashboard. Included in the Pro+Power BI and Lifetime plans.
Pick a baseline and an update XER. Plexxel builds the data model and opens the dashboard in Power BI Desktop: S-curves, SPI, progress measurement, resource histogram and schedule variance trend.
One PMS sheet per WBS node at the level you choose, such as Engineering, Procurement and Construction, each with an optional monthly, weekly or daily S-curve.
Classic, Dark and Light dashboard themes, plus optional risk, delay, milestone and procurement registers that feed their own dashboard page.
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Compatible with Excel 2016, 2019, LTSC 2021, Microsoft 365 on Windows & macOS
Plexxel exists to take the repetitive work out of project controls. Coloring a WBS, rebuilding a progress sheet, hunting open ends in a P6 schedule and assembling an earned value report are jobs that cost hours and teach you nothing you did not already know. Plexxel does each of them in a click, inside the spreadsheet you already work in, so your time goes on reading the schedule and deciding what to do about it.