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Office Timeline does what it promises. Generating timelines from excel is super easy and it creates beautiful powerpoint timelines. Some minor improvements can still be made (for example working with... See more
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The tool does well with initial set up but does not handle changes or large projects well. It often randomly seems to adjust spacing that results in having to manually adjust the entire timeline. Ther... See more
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Pros: I like the way it create the visuals, how the data is handled, the templates switching and creation, the timeline tiers, the options to place the titles. Cons: No easy way to copy- paste seve... See more
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Lucen Software (formerly Office Timeline) is a Microsoft-native clarity platform that helps organizations transform complex work into clear, actionable insight. Built for teams working in Microsoft 365, Lucen enables users to plan, visualize, track, and communicate projects directly within familiar tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and Planner, making it easier than ever to stay aligned without leaving the applications your teams already rely on every day.
The Lucen platform includes Lucen Timeline for timelines and Gantt charts, Lucen Track for time tracking and operational visibility, and emerging planning and diagramming solutions designed to improve alignment and decision-making across organizations. Each product is purpose-built to simplify how teams plan, collaborate, and report, so nothing gets lost in translation between strategy and execution.
By integrating with tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira and Azure DevOps, Lucen helps teams convert complex project data into executive-ready visuals, reports, and plans. Whether managing a single project or coordinating work across an entire organization, Lucen ensures the right information reaches the right people at the right time.
Trusted by 80% of Fortune 500 companies, Lucen has established itself as the go-to solution for teams that need to communicate progress with clarity and confidence.
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The Lucen platform includes Lucen Timeline for timelines and Gantt charts, Lucen Track for time tracking and operational visibility, and emerging planning and diagramming solutions designed to improve alignment and decision-making across organizations. Each product is purpose-built to simplify how teams plan, collaborate, and report, so nothing gets lost in translation between strategy and execution.
By integrating with tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira and Azure DevOps, Lucen helps teams convert complex project data into executive-ready visuals, reports, and plans. Whether managing a single project or coordinating work across an entire organization, Lucen ensures the right information reaches the right people at the right time.
Trusted by 80% of Fortune 500 companies, Lucen has established itself as the go-to solution for teams that need to communicate progress with clarity and confidence.
See the Platform in Action: Watch on YouTube
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e-mail: sales@lucensoftware.com
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I think the product is good
I think the product is good, but it is a bit expensive and it lacks some functionality in transferring timelines between different office applications.
January 10, 2024
Reply from Lucen Software
Happy New Year, George!
Thank you for taking the time to review the Office Timeline add-in. We're happy that you find the add-in to be a good product.
In terms of the tool's price, we do strive to ensure value for money and provide the best experience possible by constantly improving it. We release new functionalities on a regular basis and integration with more third-party productivity tools is on our product development roadmap. Your subscription entitles you to free updates and access to upcoming features, so that you always get the best of Office Timeline.
Please make sure to update the app whenever notified so that you don't miss out on its latest improvements.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Office timeline is simple to buy and…
Office timeline is simple to buy and easy to use. It produces easy to read charts. Many of my clients have commented on how good they look
January 5, 2024
Reply from Lucen Software
Happy New Year!
Thank you for purchasing and reviewing the Office Timeline add-in. We’re very happy to hear that the tool helps you create easy-to-understand charts that are appreciated by your clients, and that you are pleased with its usability.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
The product made it easier to report…
The product made it easier to report project status and have a standard for each client.
January 7, 2024
Reply from Lucen Software
Happy New Year, João!
I am stoked to know that our product has brought value to your work, helping you create project status reports for your clients with more ease. Thank you for your purchase and 5-star review of the Office Timeline add-in!
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Automatic Gantt generation from MS…
Automatic Gantt generation from MS Project in PPT.
Lot of templates.
Ability to change PPT
January 5, 2024
Reply from Lucen Software
Happy New Year, Vikas!
Thank you for being an Office Timeline customer and for rating the add-in with 5 stars. I am so glad that you are pleased with the tool’s import functionality, templates and integration with Microsoft Project and PowerPoint.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
This is a very useful product
This is a very useful product, wherein one can prepare different types of graphical views of the project plan, which makes it easier for the upper management/stakeholders to understand the flow of the project.
The only thing that i wish you could have is to able to have line graph showing the baseline v/s the actual or trend of the project. This will be super useful to the stakeholders to see whether the project is deviating a lot from the baseline or not.
January 5, 2024
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Reply from Lucen Software
Happy New Year, Robert!
Thank you for choosing Office Timeline and for reviewing the add-in so kindly. It’s great to learn that the tool has proved useful to you, helping you represent project plans in a visual way that is easy-to-understand to your executives and stakeholders.
As for having the possibility to track actual versus planned progress through the use of a baseline, we appreciate your suggestion and I’m happy to inform you that this feature is already on our product development roadmap. As we strive to continuously improve the add-in, we regularly release new functionalities and enhancements. Thus, please make sure that you always update your build to the latest version whenever notified, so you can enjoy the newest additions.
Meanwhile, the add-in allows you to show your project’s real status against the scheduled course of action through % complete indicators for your tasks, as well as “Today” and “Elapsed Time” markers on the timescale of your graphic.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Reply from Lucen Software
Happy New Year, Yonatan!
Thank you for your purchase and 5-star review of the Office Timeline add-in! We’re delighted to know that you are pleased with the tool’s usability, productivity, and output.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
The final is looking good but the way…
The final is looking good but the way to the final is quite difficult. Need improvements on dates format, sizing of bars and text, relationships and more.
Anyway, is a good and useful tool which I hope my company will buy it soon!
October 19, 2023
Unprompted review
Reply from Lucen Software
Happy Holidays, Lucian!
Thank you for taking the time to review the Office Timeline add-in! We’re happy to know that our product has helped you create good-looking visuals and proved to be useful to your work.
With regards to formatting your timelines more easily, here are a few recommendations:
• You can simultaneously customize several timeline items in terms of shape size, associated text and more. The support article below will provide you with more tips in this respect:
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414156984599-Customize-multiple-timeline-elements-simultaneously
• You can enable, manage, and style the relationships between your tasks by applying the step-by-step instructions in the following articles:
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/articles/9238167303319-How-to-enable-manage-and-style-dependencies
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/articles/9238227556503-Dependency-scheduling-date-auto-shifting
Given that I don’t have more specific details on what you want to accomplish, I will suggest that you:
• either contact us at support[at]officetimeline.com so that one of our representatives can assist you properly;
• or schedule a free demo session with one of our Timeline Experts. They will introduce you to the functionalities of the tool and address your questions. To book yours, please use the link below:
https://calendly.com/otlt/office-timeline-customer-success
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Feature
Hello - Just an idea on features.
Date format for Tasks - Please add an option for only displaying the month.
Meaning "Nov"
Only option includes the year "Nov 2024" The year is obvious in the timescale bar.
So repeating the year on the task is redundant takes up valuable Slide Real Estate.
December 19, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Happy Holidays, Mike!
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback on how the Office Timeline add-in can be improved. I will forward your suggestion to our dev team so that it be taken into account for future releases as we regularly add new features and enhancements.
It is indeed true that the tool’s current list of date formats does not include the option of displaying only the month. However, you can choose to have the timescale of your graphic expressed in months and not years by following the steps in the support article below:
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/articles/204393478-Change-the-timescale-from-months-to-anything-else
As a further action in this respect, you can then set your tasks and milestones to be non-specific in terms of dates. The following support article will show you how:
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/articles/204469688-Create-planning-timelines-that-are-not-date-specific
I hope these will prove useful to you. For further assistance with any of the add-in’s functionalities, please don’t hesitate to contact us at support[at]officetimeline.com – one of our representatives will gladly help you.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Helping a lot with PMO update timeline
Helping a lot with PMO timeline scheduling and updates to the teams.
December 18, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Hello Pavel!
Thank you for purchasing the Office Timeline add-in and for rating it with 5 stars. We are stoked that the tool has proved to be useful to you, helping with the creation and updating of PMO timelines and schedules for the teams you work with.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Reply from Lucen Software
Thank you for being an Office Timeline customer and for your 5-star review of the add-in, John! We’re delighted that you are pleased with the product and its functionalities, which we indeed strive to regularly enhance.
You can always find out what we prepare next by checking out our updates and history release page at the link below:
https://www.officetimeline.com/office-timeline/updates
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Saves soooo much time
Saves soooo much time creating timeline presentations from MS project schedule
December 14, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Thank you, Aashish, for taking the time to review the Office Timeline add-in. I am glad to learn that the tool helps you create timeline presentations for your MS Project schedules in a time-efficient manner.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Amazing tool!
This is a really great tool! As a program manager, I rely on timelines really heavily! I the abilities that timeline allows that other tools don't or don't allow as intuitively.
One suggestion is that sometimes the formats get too large for slides. It would be great if there were more options to fit the visual to the slides differently.
December 13, 2023
Unprompted review
Reply from Lucen Software
Hi Meghan! Thanks so much for this awesome review of the Office Timeline add-in. It’s great to know that our product has met your project manager needs and that you are pleased with its functionalities.
With regards to fitting your visuals better on the slide, you might find the support article below useful:
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011364527-How-to-resize-your-slide-for-optimal-printing
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Great tool for executive presentation
I like that I have multiple templates to choose from. Officetimeline has been my go-to tool for executive presentations since I learned about it about 5 years ago. I only wish you could add dependencies in the online version.
December 1, 2023
Unprompted review
Reply from Lucen Software
Hello Alberta!
Thank you for taking the time to review the Office Timeline products. We’re happy to hear that the tools have proved to be a reliable help in the preparation of your executive presentations.
As for adding dependencies within the online application, we strive to continuously develop both products so that feature parity between the two be ensured. To this end, we regularly release new functionalities and enhancements. Whenever such additions become available, you will receive a notification that prompts you to update your build to the latest version so you can enjoy those new improvements.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Using this tool for years through…
Using this tool for years through various companies. Best solution for timelines
December 12, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Thank you for choosing the Office Timeline add-in and for your loyalty as a customer, Adam! We are thrilled that you find our product to be a quality timeline maker that meets your needs.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
As a contract project manager I use…
As a contract project manager I use OfficeTimeline online version. Being in to cloud it can follows me from client to client. Easy to use, seamlessly produces beautiful PowerPoint presentations of my projects timeline that I can present to management. Something ms project desktop should do but does not. As a pm I do t have time to mess around in word or excel, power point to produce a timeline diagram. This app is awesome.
December 12, 2023
Unprompted review
Reply from Lucen Software
Thank you, Phillip, for using Office Timeline Online and for your great feedback on the app’s usability and productivity! We’re so glad to learn that the web-based tool helps you to easily create visually appealing project timelines that you can present to your management and brings value to your work as a contract project manager.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Storytelling at your fingertips
This product makes summarizing project timelines and milestones a breeze. It’s customization is completely unique and allows you to really tell a story to both members of a project team as well as C Suite execs or stakeholders. I love it so much I bought it with my own money and use it every single day.
December 10, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Hi Reem! Thank you so much for purchasing the Office Timeline add-in and for reviewing it so kindly. I am absolutely stoked to know that you enjoy using our product and that it helps you to easily create visually appealing summarizing timelines that you can present to team members, executives, and stakeholders.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Absolutely a great product that made my…
Absolutely a great product that made my life 10x easier.
December 7, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Hello John!
We’re delighted that you consider the Office Timeline add-in to be a quality, time-saving product that has brought value to you. Thank you so much for your purchase and 5-star review!
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
I generally use the office timeline to generate executive presentations
I generally use the office timeline to generate weekly/monthly executive status reports. I am able to download Microsoft project plans into the Officetimeline and generate high level timelines that can be inserted into Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
December 6, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Thank you for being an Office Timeline customer and for rating the add-in with 5 stars, Hamid! We’re thrilled to hear that the tool helps you easily import your Microsoft Project data into PowerPoint and turn it into presentation-ready high-level timelines for your weekly/monthly executive status reports.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
Office Timeline is awesome.
I love Office Timeline so much. As a program manager, this is a super helpful tool when I am making company facing, easily digestible timelines. 2 suggestions:
1. In a swimlane, it would be really helpful to be able to be able to have milestones or events NEXT to each other, just like how you can up top with the little milestone flags. It would help me use the swimlane space more efficiently, instead of having each milestone be on its own "line"
2. Enable dependencies so that if I move milestone A out 3 months, the downstream milestones also move out 3 months, and i dont have to go through manually and do this.
Y'all rock!! Keep up the good work.
November 27, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Thank you, Sara, for this awesome review of the Office Timeline add-in. We are stoked to know that you enjoy using our product and that it helps you create easy-to-follow timelines that you can present to different audiences from the company you work for.
With regards to your suggestions:
1) You can align multiple event-associated shapes on the same row/line within a swimlane by simply clicking on ”Edit Timeline” from the Office Timeline tab and then dragging and dropping any milestones in the intended position. When you finish repositioning your items, don’t forget to click on ”Save” so that the new layout is kept.
2) It is true that Office Timeline currently allows users to set dependencies ONLY between tasks. If you are interested in learning how to enable task dependencies so that dates are automatically updated when changes occur to the plan, please check out the support article below:
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/articles/9238227556503-Dependency-scheduling-date-auto-shifting
Meanwhile, I will forward your feedback related to the auto-shifting of milestone dates that are dependent on another ones to our dev team so that it can be taken into account for future releases. As part of our effort to continuously improve the product, we regularly add new features and enhancements. Whenever such improvements become available, you will be prompted to update your add-in build to the latest version so you can enjoy the new developments in question.
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
development timeline maker
development timeline maker - master plan timeline
to present the timeline to the authority
It would be helpful if I could use various function more easily.
December 4, 2023
Reply from Lucen Software
Hi Hyen! Thank you for choosing Office Timeline and for taking the time to rate our product. We’re happy to learn that the tool helps you create and present summary timelines of your plans to your executives.
With regards to the functionalities that you would like to use more easily, please contact us at support[at]officetimeline.com with more details so that one of our representatives could assist you accordingly.
Alternatively, you could browse through the dozens of step-by-step support articles and how-to video tutorials that are available at the link below:
https://support.officetimeline.com/hc/en-us/categories/200131758-How-to-articles-and-videos
Best wishes,
Sebastian Stingu – Head of Marketing
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