Microsoft® Office Project 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 2. Changing the Look of a Project

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✓	Changing fonts in tables
✓	Formatting Gantt Chart view
✓	Formatting Network Diagram view
✓	Formatting Calendar view

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You can change the look of a project in a variety of ways. For example, you can use different fonts for task names in views containing tables. And, Project contains special formatting that you can apply to Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, and Calendar views. In this chapter, we look at these different ways to change the appearance of a project.

Changing Fonts

In views that contain tables, such as Gantt Chart view, Task Usage view, and Resource Usage view, you can make changes to the fonts that appear in the table cells to highlight pertinent information. You change font information for selected tasks or for tasks that fall into a particular category, such as external tasks in an inserted project.

See Book III, Chapter 4 for more information on inserting and linking projects.

Don’t go overboard with multiple fonts or colors on a single schedule. You can make a project harder to read by using too many fancy fonts. Try to use only one or two fonts or colors in your schedule, and vary the text by using bold or italic between categories. Using too light a color, such as yellow, for a font face can make the text very difficult to read, and in print, the schedule won’t look much better. If you really want to use color, set the background color of the cell to any color other than black. Also, try ...