From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training

Choose a view

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Choose a view

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- [Instructor] Project has dozens of built-in views that you can display in different panes within the main Project window. You can choose the view you want from several spots within the program. When you first get Project, it has a view with a Timeline view at the top and the Gantt Chart view at the bottom. These are two single views, Timeline is one and Gantt Chart is the other, so there are two panes in the Project window. Now I'm gonna go to the Task tab. On the left end of the ribbon, there's a View section. If I click the top half of the Gantt Chart button, that applies the Gantt Chart view, but if I click the bottom half, there's a menu with other built-in views that I can choose. I just click the one I want. If you don't see the one you want, then down at the bottom of the menu, click More Views. The More Views dialog box opens, and you can scroll through the list of all the available views. Well, let's say I want to apply the Resource Allocation view. I click that and then click Apply. Resource Allocation is known as a combination view. It comes with one view, Resource Usage, in the primary pane, and a second view, Leveling Gantt, in the details pane. You can also select views on the Resource tab. It has a View section as well. Now, before we do that, let's go to the View tab, and I'm gonna turn off the Details checkbox in the Split View section. That way I just have one single view in my window. Now, I gonna go back to the Resource tab. If I click Team Planner, the top half of the button, that displays the Team Planner view. If I click the bottom half, I get the menu of views that I can select. If we go to the View tab, there's whole section for Task views. You've got Gantt Chart, Task Usage. The Task Board is for Agile projects. You have Network Diagram, and then there's the Calendar, which looks like a desk calendar. The Resource Views section has Team Planner, Resource Usage, and Resource Sheet. If you don't see the view that you want, you can always click Other Views, and then choose More Views to open up the More Views dialog box. Another place where you can select a view is in the Status Bar. Down at the bottom right corner of the Project window, there are four icons in the Status Bar: Gantt Chart, Task Usage, Team Planner, and Resource Sheet. If you wanna see one of those views, just click the icon and that view appears. Finally, you can tell Project what view you want to display every time you create a new project. To do that, we're gonna head to the File tab and then choose Options. In the Project Options dialog box, go to the General category and look for Project View. The Default View box is set to Gantt with Timeline, initially, but you can click the down arrow and choose whatever view you want, like Gantt Chart, then, when you create a new project, that's the view that will display. There you have several techniques for choosing the view you want to display.

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