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Align task bars within rows

Align task bars within rows

- [Instructor] Changing the appearance of task bars in a schedule is easy. On the Format tab, turn on the Critical Tasks check box to see the tasks on the critical path. Critical tasks are red, non-critical tasks are blue. Bar styles let you change the task bar formatting for categories of tasks. On the Format tab, click the Format button and then choose Bar Styles. To change the appearance of a category of task bars, click the row for that category. On the Bars tab at the bottom of the dialog box, click the Shape down arrow and choose the bar width and alignment you want. Click the Color down arrow and choose the color you want. Click OK and the task bars for that category of tasks change immediately. To see how task bar formatting can help, in the View tab, click the bottom half of the Gantt Chart button and choose Tracking Gantt. This view has narrow bars on top that show the current schedule and narrow gray…

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