Looking for a low-budget alternative to Tom Snyder’s Timeliner? Create one within Microsoft Excel! Microsoft Education has a good tutorial on how to create a timeline with Excel:
With Microsoft Excel, you can create a timeline “by utilizing fill colors to fill in
groups of cells. Text can even be entered sideways to mark the events being
represented. [You can also] enter text inside a drawing such as a rectangle or
add pictures to jazz up the timeline.”
[Link] From LifeHacker