You can only close the project without saving it and then reopen it. You cannot undo the changes that the Gantt Chart Wizard makes to your project. Project displays a final dialog box to tell you that your formatting is complete.Ĭlick the Exit Wizard button to close the dialog box and see your changes. Click the Format It button to apply your choices. Figure 8-5: If you don't like what you see, move back to the dialog box in which you made the original setting, change the setting, and then move forward to this dialog box again.Ħ. You can use the Back button to go back and make changes. This Gantt Chart Wizard dialog box, shown in Figure 8-5, previews your formatting options. Figure 8-4: Decide whether to display link lines to indicate dependent tasks.ĥ. Here you can decide whether you want to show link lines between dependent tasks. Click Next to display the next wizard dialog box, shown in Figure 8-4. Figure 8-3: Placing text alongside taskbars can be useful with larger schedules.Ĥ. If you choose this setting, you don't need to show the corresponding columns for start date and end date in the Gantt table, so this option can help you modify the size of your schedule printout. When you choose Dates, as I did inįigure 8-3, Project displays the start date and end date in the taskbar area. In this box, you can choose the type of task information to display with your Gantt bars: Resources and dates (the end date only), Resources, Dates, None (of the choices), or Custom task information. The third wizard dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 8-3. Click the option button for Custom Gantt Chart, and then click the Next button. Figure 8-2: The preview provides an idea of how each option formats your Gantt Chart.ģ. If you don't want to format the Gantt Chart to * treat critical tasks differently, try using a filter to temporarily display only critical tasks, as I discuss in Chapter 7. Tip Highlighting critical tasks in a project helps you to pay special attention to them when reviewing or tracking progress. Custom Gantt Chart: Displays several additional screens to enable you to create a highly customized Gantt Chart.Other: Displays a drop-down list that contains several alternative, predefined chart styles for the categories of Standard, Critical Path, Baseline, and Status.Baseline: Displays baseline taskbars and progress taskbars separately, rather than superimposed as with the Standard setup, as shown in Figure 8-2.Critical path: Is the Standard layout, with critical-path tasks in red.Standard: Shows blue taskbars, black summary taskbars, and a black line superimposed over the taskbars to indicate progress on tasks.Try clicking each of the following choices to see a preview of its style on the left of the dialog box: In the second wizard dialog box, as shown in Figure 8-2, indicate the category of information that you want to display. Click Cancel to leave the wizard without saving any settings, click Back to move back one step, and click Finish to complete the wizard based on the information that you've provided to that point.Ģ.
Note The four buttons at the bottom of this dialog box appear at the bottom of each wizard dialog box. Figure 8-1: Step 1 of the wizard simply greets you and tells you what the wizard does. A dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 8-1. A dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 8-1.Ĭlick the Gantt Chart Wizard button on the Formatting toolbar, or choose FormatOGantt Chart Wizard to start the wizard. If you don't like what you get at the end, close your project without saving it and reopen it.Ĭlick the Gantt Chart Wizard button on the Formatting toolbar, or choose FormatOGantt Chart Wizard to start the wizard. No Undo button exists for the changes that the Gantt Chart Wizard applies to your project. Then follow these steps to run the Gantt Chart Wizard: Because Gantt Chart Wizard changes apply only to the project file that's open when you run the wizard, start by displaying the project that you want to format. You can use the Gantt Chart Wizard from either the Gantt Chart view or the Tracking Gantt view.
The Microsoft Office family of products uses wizards to automate many functions. Project uses your input to create or modify some aspect of your project (in this case, the formatting that is applied to your Gantt Chart).
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Note A wizard is an interactive series of dialog boxes that require you to answer questions or make selections. Running through the Gantt Chart Wizard highlights some of the options. However, the Gantt Chart view has its own wizard to help you format the various pieces. You can make changes to specific elements in several Project views.
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