Project 2010 Bible

Chapter 7. Using Views to Gain Perspective

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Customizing views

• Filtering views to gain perspective

In Chapter 6, you saw samples of the built-in views that come with Project. And although you may never need any view other than those, you're not limited to just those views. The potential variations for viewing information about your project are almost mind-boggling; you can use the built-in views, you can create variations of the built-in views, and you can create your own views. In this chapter, you explore ways to make views work for you.

Customizing Views

You can customize the views in Project so they show you the information that you need. You can fiddle with the tables in views that contain tables or tinker with the views themselves.

Changing tables

In views containing tables, you can make changes as simple as modifying the height of the rows or switching to a different table. Or you can modify the appearance of the default table by moving columns around — hiding or adding columns — and save your changes in a new table.

Changing row height and column width

By default, Project automatically adjusts the height of rows in your project to accommodate the text you type in the Task Name column. If a task name is longer than the current width of the Task Name column, Project widens the task's row and wraps the text. In Figure 7.1, the names of Tasks 5 and 7 are wrapped in the Task Name column.

Figure 7.1. By default, Project widens rows to accommodate long task names.

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