Choosing a view

Over the lifetime of a project, you need to look at it from many perspectives.…That's why Project has dozens of built-in views that you can display in…different panes within the main Project window.…Project lets you pick the View you want in a number of places within the program.…The initial View that you see is the Timeline View at the top of the window, and…the Gantt Chart View at the bottom.…The Timeline View is a great View for an overall picture of your project in just one simple bar.…Then at the bottom, the Gantt Chart View fills in the detail with a table on the left …with columns of data about each task, and on the right-hand side, you…have the Timescale that gives you a graphical look at when those tasks actually occur.…

One thing to understand about Project Views is that this Gantt Chart View is…considered a single View, even though it has a Table pane on the left, and a…Timescale pane on the right.…Now there are a couple of different places that you can select Views.…The first place, since we're on the TASK tab, is the Gantt Chart button right on…