On the View
tab, in the Documents Views
group, click the Show Gantt Pro.
Gantt Pro opens in its own window. To return to the map, click Back to Map.
In Gantt Pro view, double-click a task in the chart.
In the Gantt Pro dialog, click the Task tab.
Do any of the following:
Set the task’s progress by choosing a percentage from the Progress drop-down.
Set the start date by choosing a date in the Start date drop-down.
Set the due date by choosing a date in the Due date drop-down.
Set the task duration by choosing a time increment and number in the Duration area.
Set the task as a milestone by clicking the Milestone box. A milestone is a status that does not have any duration or any work associated with it. They can have dependencies, but no resources.
In Gantt Pro view, double-click a task.
In the Gantt Pro dialog, click the Resources tab.
Do any of the following:
Add a resource by typing the resource name in the bottom drop-down, and clicking Add.
Remove the resource by clicking the X button next to the resource.
Specify the percentage of the resource's time you expect the resource to spend working on the task over the course of the full task duration by choosing a percentage from the Load % drop-down..
In Gantt Pro view, double-click a task.
In the Gantt Pro dialog, click the Dependencies tab.
Do any of the following:
Set predecessor or successor tasks by choosing tasks from the drop-down and choosing an option from the Dependency Type drop-down.
Add another predecessor or successor task by choosing a task, and clicking Add.
In Gantt Pro, click Solve.
In Gantt Pro, click a task, click Remove Slack, and then do one of the following:
Click From selected and dependent tasks to remove slack time only from the selected task.
Click From all tasks to remove slack from all tasks in the map.
In Gantt Pro, click Move Project, and then do one of the following:
Click Change start date, choose a new date from the drop-down in the Project Start Date dialog, and click OK.
Click Change end date, choose a new date from the drop-down in the Project End Date dialog, and click OK.
In Gantt Pro, click Export.
Click Export images, and click one of the following:
Chart only to export the chart.
Grid and chart to export both grid and chart.
Click one of the following:
Copy to Clipboard to paste the image in another document.
Save as file to save as a JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, or BMP.
In Gantt Pro, click Export.
Click Export reports, and click one of the following:
Project report
Summaries report
Milestones report
Tasks report
Grid report
Click one of the following:
Preview to view the report in its own window.
Copy to Clipboard to paste the report in another document.
Save as file to save a report as a CSV file. You cannot save project reports as a CSV file.
In Gantt Pro, click Options.
Uncheck the Use the default options for this map box.
Do any of the following:
In the Project Visualization area, specify what to do with tasks that don’t have an owner, and whether to include regular relationships as start-to-finish dependencies.
In the Charting area, choose the level of granularity to determine how far you can zoom in.
In the Columns to show in grids area, specify what columns to display in the grid.
You can also set topic filtering, specify whether to show topic formatting, specify how text displays next to task bars, highlight tasks that could make the project late, specify how tooltips are displayed, and specify how the chart is sorted.
In Gantt Pro, click Go to, and choose one of the following:
Click Today to go today’s date.
Click Start of Project to go to the first day of the project.
Click End of Project to go to the last day of the project.
In Gantt Pro, do one of the following:
Click Zoom in.
Click Zoom out.
Click Zoom to fit to have the chart span the width of the Gantt Pro window.
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