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Modifying task bar layout

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Modifying task bar layout

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Adjusting how tasks are laid out in the timescale is helpful. Particularly, when task link lines look like spaghetti. Layout options also let you change the date format, the height of bars, and how splits appear. To format the layout of the timescale in the Gantt Chart go to the Format tab, and then click the Layout button. The first thing you see in the Layout dialog box is three options for how link lines appear. The default option is kind of like an upside down L and it's nice and clean. So you can still see the links, but there's just not too much going on. The only problem is sometimes the vertical parts of the link lines overlap. So another option if you want to get rid of the overlapping is to choose this S shape. If I apply that you can see that the Taskbars then go from the ends of one bar to the end of the other. And they don't overlap as much. Another option if you want to focus on the tasks and when they occur is to not show the link lines at all. So in that case you would…

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