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Modifying task bar layout

Modifying task bar layout

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Modifying task bar layout

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- Adjusting how tasks are laid out in the time scale 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. Well to format the layout of a time scale in the Gantt chart, go to the Format tab. And then, click the Layout button. The first thing you see in the Layout dialogue 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 task bars 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. In…

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