Archive for February, 2008

Display Relative Week Numbers in MS Project

If you’d like to show the relative week number from the project start next to milestone tasks in the WBS of the Gantt chart.  You need to insert a calculated text field with to handle this.
Right click on the column header

Select “Insert Column.”
Select an unused custom text field name like “Text1″. 
Change the title to something […]

Mac Gantt Chart Tool Review - Merlin 2.5

I am a Project Manager at KPMG and I create a lot of Gantt charts to convey project schedules. It’s important to me to have a solid tool for this process.
As you all know I abhor MS Project, because of its lack of intuitiveness as well as stovepiping a certain way of doing work.  I […]

.Net Gantt Chart Component

ASE looks like they have a pretty nice component for embedding in .Net applications.   It appears that it will work in ASP.Net as well, which is pretty hot.
Check out their chart gallery of how it works when using it for Gantt Charts.
The Gannt Chart versions don’t look as hot as some of the others in their […]

Gantt Chart Bar Height

If you need to make the bars taller than 24 pixels high in Microsoft project, you don’t really have much of a choice, it would seem.
You are presented with a drop-down list, and the tallest selection available is 24.  So, how do you make one bigger so that you can make it stand out from […]