# Using Excel for Project Management? Time to Upgrade

> Using Excel to manage projects may be convenient, but is it the best way? Here's why teams that need to manage tasks, scale collaboration, and customize workflows use Asana for project management.

Source: https://asana.com/uses/excel-project-management

#### Go beyond spreadsheets to manage your projects

#### Keep project details in one place

Spreadsheets don’t give you the ability to add details, have conversations, or attach files, so you end up scattering project information across a suite of tools, making it too easy to miss something on your to-do list or waste time hunting down an asset.

A good [project management tool](https://asana.com/uses/project-management) combines the grid-like view of a spreadsheet with collaboration features—so you can say goodbye to digging through old email chains for the latest updates or files.

#### Quickly build and maintain plans

If you’re managing projects in spreadsheets, you may also spend a lot of time building [calendars](https://asana.com/uses/team-calendar) and Gantt charts from scratch. Even with a template, customizing, formatting, and keeping your project plans up to date takes up a lot of your time.

Unlike Excel, agile tools designed for work and project management make it easy for you to quickly create and update dynamic project plans.

#### Easily manage multiple projects and programs

Without a place to store all your project information, it’s hard to know the status of your entire program or switch between projects quickly. If you manage a team, it’s even more difficult to see an employee’s workload across all of them. With a more powerful [project management tool](https://asana.com/uses/project-management/), you can easily gain these insights to help with project tracking and resource management.

#### Collaborate easily and effectively

Spreadsheets aren’t [built for collaboration](https://asana.com/uses/team-collaboration), but other project planners are. Instead of juggling Excel project trackers, emails, chats, and docs to keep track of all the moving pieces, manage your projects from a single source of truth. Project and work management tools let you keep all project conversations and files connected to your plans, so you never miss a beat.

Goodbye Excel. Hello Asana.

Asana is project management software that makes it easy to manage all kinds of projects, from [marketing](https://asana.com/teams/marketing) to [engineering](https://asana.com/teams/engineering). Instead of organizing and updating spreadsheet trackers, spend your time on getting results. No advanced Excel skills required.

- [Подробнее об Asana](/product)

#### However you manage projects in Excel, do it better in Asana

#### Excel templates are good, but Asana's are better for project management.

Use our pre-made [templates](https://asana.com/templates)—or make your own—so you can spend less time re-thinking your roadmap and more time getting work done.

#### Never make another copy of a Gantt chart template again.

Visually map out project timelines, schedule tasks, and get a clear view of who's doing what and when with [Timeline](https://asana.com/uses/timeline) view.

#### Stop manually building calendars

Instead of manually building a calendar in Excel, you can automatically view each project schedule in an Asana calendar. Project managers can quickly switch between [lists](https://asana.com/uses/to-do-list) and [calendars](https://asana.com/uses/team-calendar).

#### Excel project trackers fall short on collaboration and communication.

With Asana, you can follow tasks to get notifications on progress or completion, comment directly on them, add due dates, assignees, and more.

#### Create project templates

Use Asana-created templates—or make your own—so you can spend less time re-thinking your roadmap and more time getting work done.

#### Instead of Gantt charts, Timeline

Visually map out project timelines, schedule tasks, and get a clear view of who's doing what and when with Timeline view

#### View work on calendars

Instead of building a calendar in Excel, you can automatically view each project in a calendar view. Swiftly switch between lists and calendars

#### Track task progress

Follow tasks to get notifications on progress or completion, comment directly on them, add due dates, assignees, and more.

#### Asana’s versatile project management views adjust to your team’s needs

#### How to turn spreadsheets into Asana projects

#### Dropbox

С лёгкостью прикрепляйте файлы из Dropbox к задаче прямо с панели задачи и используйте правила Asana для автоматической загрузки файлов в папку Dropbox.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/dropbox)

#### Google

Оптимизируйте, координируйте и управляйте работой, которую вы выполняете в Google Workspace и Asana

- [Подробнее](/google-workspace)

#### Google Таблицы

Преобразуйте проекты или задачи Asana в электронные таблицы, а затем редактируйте и работайте над ними вместе, где бы вы ни находились.

- [Посмотреть интеграции](/apps/google-sheets)

#### Google Диск

С лёгкостью прикрепляйте файлы из Google Диска к задачам в Asana и получайте уведомления о комментариях, чтобы обеспечивать связь между командами и работой.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/google-drive)

#### Microsoft Teams

Свяжите беседы своей группы с поручениями в Asana.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/microsoft)

#### Slack

Превращайте идеи, заявки на выполнение работы и поручения в отслеживаемые задачи и комментарии в Asana.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/slack)

#### Google Calendar

Use Asana rules to automatically schedule events on your calendar.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/google-calendar)

#### Jira

Автоматически создавайте задачи Asana из билетов Jira и наоборот, а также синхронизируйте заявки, задачи, проекты, комментарии, исполнителей, настраиваемые поля и многое другое.

- [Подробнее](/apps/jira)

#### Gmail

Превращайте электронные письма в отслеживаемые задачи в Asana, не выходя из почтового ящика Gmail.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/google-gmail)

#### Google

Оптимизируйте, координируйте и управляйте работой, которую вы выполняете в Google Workspace и Asana

- [Подробнее](/google-workspace)

#### Slack

Превращайте идеи, заявки на выполнение работы и поручения в отслеживаемые задачи и комментарии в Asana.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/slack)

#### Zoom

Сделайте совещания более действенными с помощью задач, поручений и доступных для поиска расшифровок в Asana.

#### Dropbox

С лёгкостью прикрепляйте файлы из Dropbox к задаче прямо с панели задачи и используйте правила Asana для автоматической загрузки файлов в папку Dropbox.

- [Возможности интеграции](/apps/dropbox)

#### How to turn spreadsheets into Asana projects

- [Learn more about the CSV importer](/apps/csv-importer)

#### Teams that want results trust Asana

We decided to give Asana a try. We were quickly able to eliminate the drudgery of sending update emails and reporting on progress in weekly meetings. Now, if I want to know what’s going on with a project or what the status of anything is, I just look at Asana and everything is instantly clear. Asana makes our process so much more efficient. It removes all the waste in communication.

- [Начните пробный период](/create-account)

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- [Начать работу](/create-account)

- [Смотреть демо](/go-demo)

Узнайте, как Asana объединяет компании в больших масштабах.

- [Просмотр демонстрации](/demo/main)

- [Поговорить с торговым представителем](/sales)

Узнайте, как Asana помогает командам эффективно взаимодействовать.

- [Отдел продаж](/sales)

#### Преобразуйте свой стиль работы с помощью Asana

#### Project management in Excel: What to consider

Managing projects in Excel only takes you so far. What does your team actually need to stay on track? Between product budgets and task lists, you'll soon realize spreadsheets weren’t made for project management.

- [Начать работу](/create-account)

- [Просмотр демонстрации](/demo/main)

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