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Display Relative Week Numbers in MS Project

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

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 […]

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Gantt Chart Bar Height

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

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 […]

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