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Modifying task bar styles and task bar text

Modifying task bar styles and task bar text - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Modifying task bar styles and task bar text

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Taskbar formatting makes it easy to emphasize information by showing Critical Tasks in red and Noncritical Tasks in blue. We can also format individual taskbars if you want to highlight key tasks like milestones that trigger payments. Project actually has some taskbar formatting that's right on the ribbon. So for example, on the Format tab the Critical Tasks checkbox is turned on and that shows Critical Tasks in red taskbars and Noncritical Tasks in blue. If turn off the checkbox all the taskbars change to blue. Turn it back on and now I can see all the Critical Tasks again. You can also format Bar Styles and that's a style for a whole category of bars. So to do that click the Format button and choose Bar Styles. That opens the Bar Styles dialog box and its rather imposing. There's quite a bit here, but it's really not so bad when you look at it. So let's say that we want to format the Critical Tasks. I select the Critical Row in the table and now down at the bottom on this Bar's tab…

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