Excel: overlap bars of bar graph tool

Question

I would like to make a bar graph similar to a Gantt Chart (see figure)

but only showing one row, with every bar overlapped with the others. I want to do this supposing that I have non-overlapped periods, and the final figure is only one row with several red periods.

How can I do it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You should be able to accomplish that with a sideways stacked bar chart:

And you can adjust the axis minimums and maximums to make it look better - as well as fool with some other stuff. But that is probably how I would do it. Good Luck.