Microsoft Project Step by Step (covering Project Online Desktop Client)

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Format and share your plan

In this chapter

• Customize a Gantt chart view

• Add tasks to a Timeline view

• Customize reports

• Copy views and reports

• Print views and reports

In some respects, a Project plan is really a database of information, not unlike a Microsoft Access database file. You don’t usually see all the data in a plan at one time. Instead, you focus on the aspect of the plan you’re currently interested in viewing. Views and reports are the most common ways to observe or print a plan’s data. In both cases, you can substantially format the data to meet your needs.

In this chapter, you customize and share common views from Project—views such as the Gantt Chart, which is strongly identified with project management.

Another means of visualizing ...