Formatting based on task status gone in 2007?

[rustywill]

Hello,

This is a tough one to search out (at least for me)!

In older versions of Project you had the capability to specify the formating for:
Overdue tasks
Active tasks
Critical tasks
and so on.

I can't find this in 2007: is it there or gone?

Thanks so much!
Rusty Williamson

Rusty Williamson
Founder / Director
Virtualmedia Studios, San Diego, CA

http://www.virtualmediastudios.com

 

[PDQBach]

It's still there:

View > Gantt
Format > Text styles...

In fact, it's slightly enhanced since you can set up a colour for the font *and* for the cell background.

However ...

You mention specifically Overdue tasks and Active tasks. Those task "categories" (for lack of a better word) were not, in the previous version, among the list of task "categories" that could be selected -- perhaps I have misunderstood your requirement.

As a potential workaround, it is possible to change the formatting of the Gantt bars with a great deal of granularity. It's a bit of an extended discussion but if you want to go that way, let me know.

 

[rustywill]

Hm... I don't see Gantt Format in the View menu. Are you sure you are using Project 2007? I think that this would be changing font in the task bar area. What I was looking for was changing the formating of text in the left hand task table.

Thanks for replying!

Rusty

Rusty Williamson
Founder / Director
Virtualmedia Studios, San Diego, CA

http://www.virtualmediastudios.com

 

[PDQBach]

Look at the menu bar going across the top of the MS Project window:

First, set the view:
View > Gantt Chart

Second, set the text display
Format > Text styles...

These elements have been in MSPrj for numerous releases.

Perhaps you are actually using MSPrj 2010 which uses the "ribbon" and, in this case, that's a "whole 'nother ballgame."