Formatting Bars

I am fairly certain this is not a standard feature.

You could paste in a graphic created somewhere else but this is not in my opinion ideal solution..

Paul E Harris
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers & Consulting
www.eh.com.au

Hi Tony,

I tried to do something like this a while back and couldn’t make it work. If you do get hold of something could you post it in this thread, I’d really be interested.

Chris Oggham

Hello all,
isn’t great that the Forum is back!
To fade a task bar does not exist in MS Project.
If you want a bar whose color would be stronger to show actual duration and lighter to show remaining duration, go to Format, Bars, then
1. select "Normal" and give it a definite color, bar size and light pattern,
2. do the same thing for "Critical"
This will make it for Remaining duration,
3. select "Actual duration" (or "progress"?), and give it the same color and size that "Normal" and a stronger pattern
4. build a "Progress, Critical" that would be the same as "progress" with a filter on Critical, and give it the same color and size that "Critical" and a stronger pattern.
It should work the way you want
Alexandre

Tony

If you created two bars with a finish start relationship - the first bar being the "solid" colour and the second being a lighter shade (in the pattern section), you could then create a summary bar of the two and roll up the bars. On the summary bar you hide the task bar and show the rolled up gantt bars, and on the tasks you roll up the bar to the summary bar. If the second bar was then split into sections, ie breaks between work days, and you put an arrow as the end shape of the second bar, and then minimise the summary bar the results are not too bad. You could aklso add some text to the bar to indicate an ongoing timeframe.

Cheers

Andrew

Andrew,

Thanks for that. However, I think that the schedule I am looking at will have so many "work-rounds", it will double the number of activities!!!

Regards.