♦ Date format: Use this drop-down list to select a date or time format. To take a quick look at your schedule with no dependency information showing, use the choice of no link lines in this dialog box. Remember, link lines graphically display dependency relationships among tasks. ♦ Links: Click one of these option buttons to display either no link lines or to use one of the available styles. The options that you can set for the Gantt Chart layout are as follows: If you don't like the results, close your project without saving it and reopen it. No Undo button exists for the changes that Project applies to your schedule when you use the Layout dialog box. Figure 8-15: Because layout affects different elements in different views, the Layout dialog box for the Gantt Chart view is different than the Layout dialog box for the Network Diagram and Calendar views.Ĭaution ^ If you have a short schedule with many tasks running only hours in length, don't round taskbars to whole days. In the Gantt Chart view, the Layout dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 8-15. To modify the layout, choose FormatOLayout.

And, as you'll read in the next section, layout in the Network Diagram Chart view affects link lines and how Project handles page breaks. For example, in the Calendar view, layout affects the order in which Project lists multiple tasks on one calendar day and how it splits date bars. Note In views other than the Gantt Chart view, layout affects different elements. At the bottom of the dialog box, I added Baseline Duration to the bottom row of Normal tasks. Figure 8-14: In the table, I changed the number of rows for Normal tasks.

Figure 8-13: Adding rows to each task can make your schedule easier to read. The layout of a Gantt Chart refers to the appearance of link lines, date formats used for information displayed near taskbars, the height of taskbars, and how Project displays certain characteristics of taskbars.

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