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Display Relative Week Numbers in MS Project

Steve Wilheir — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:38:24 +0000

Here’s a handy tip when you want to draw a Gantt chart , 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 like “Week #”.Now, you should see a blank column with the header “Week #” on it.
Right click that new column header and choose “C ustomize Fields…”
Click the “Formu la…” button
Type the following formula into the formula dialog:
- CStr(1+DateDiff(”w”;[Project Start];[Start]))

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Gantt Chart Bar Height

Steve Wilheir — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:36:29 +0000

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 the rest or fill the page for a presentation?

Well, depending upon what you’re trying to do there are a few workarounds:

You could make another bar on the next row, and butt the two of them together through the Format -> Bar Styles dialog.

Then again, if you’re just trying to make the whole thing look bigger when you print it out, the Page Setup functionality will let you scale the whole thing up to fill the page.

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