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Gantt Chart Display

Anonymous
2025-05-06T15:40:22+00:00

I have created schedules on Project often over the years and have used the same method for display of names, start dates, etc. in the gantt chart adjacent to the bars. The company I am working for provided a current version of Project but I have not been able to get the gantt chart to display this information. Is ther a setting or changed procedure I can use to fix this problem?

WIndows 11, MS Project 2503 (version 18623.20208)

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  1. Dale Howard [MVP] 29,825 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-05-06T17:58:05+00:00

    James --

    It works the same way it has worked previously. Double-click in the white part of the Gantt Chart screen to display the Bars Styles dialog. Select the bar style that you want to change and then click the Text tab in the lower-left corner of the dialog. In the Text section of the dialog, select the field you want to display in the Right, Left, Top, Bottom and Inside of the bar style in question, and then click the OK button. For an example of how to do this, you might want to watch a couple of my YouTube videos at:

    https://youtu.be/RPc761TYs8U

    https://youtu.be/1cC2sLDPpxA

    Hope this helps.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-07T02:19:50+00:00

    To expand a bit on Dale's answer, here's some more tips.

    All of the formatting, as well as everything in the print setup is contained in a view.

    If you want custom formatting, such as you describe, you should copy a view such as the default Gantt Chart, give the copy an appropriate name, and then you can go to town formatting the copy without changing the original default view.

    I always like to leave the default view as original. If you have changed its formatting, the clean default can be recovered with the organiser (organizer for America).

    The default is rather bland. Leave it that way.

    I like to have several different custom views for different purposes, so horizontal and vertical gridlines, bar height at 24 pt (in format, layout), status date ,and other variations of bar shapes and colours, as well as headers and footers etc in the print setup.. Also, I usually don't want to display the predecessor arrows because they are usually a lot of clutter.

    A view also contains a table, a filter, a group, and a sort..

    So, for example, I have a view called "AA Gantt Chart With Critical Tasks 01" and that has gridlines, fat bars, a custom filter which excludes the summaries, sorted by start and prints to 1xA0 PDF. and more.

    Setting up custom views like this saves a lot of time and provides much more functionality.

    Some views are useful to work in and others are for display and presentation. And of course you can use the organiser to copy custom views from one file to another so you never have to do it twice.

    Good luck with that.

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