Printing shortened Gantt Views

[angrymonkey]

Hello all,
This forum appears to be quite helpful.
Hoping there might be a solution for my problem.
Specifically, I work in the construction industry were we need to produce hard copy schedules for review. These schedules must be fit on to one 11"x17" page. With construction we usually have tasks at the beginning and end that are specified in days with the actual construction tasks in the middle taking months. The problem when printing is that we cannot fit everything on to one landscape oriented page without losing a great amount of detail, due to the long middle construction task.
In the past I have printed/PDF'd the schedule on to multiple sheets, imported them into Photoshop and truncated the long construction task so that all information will fit on one sheet.
There has got to be an easier/quicker way. Can adjust the timescale only for the middle section of the chart. we need to keep the timescale to a week day level of detail for the beginnig and ends of the project.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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P.S. Sorry for the long winded explanation.

 

[PDQBach]

There is no way that I know of where you can specify that the Gantt portion of the display is constrained so that you see several months, hide several months, show several months.

(As I read your request, it's, in effect, like having an Excel spreadsheet where you select several columns and then click on Format > Column > Hide.)

Photoshop seems a bit heavy handed. I tried setting up the MS Project display as I think you want, clicked on the "copy picture" button (it's on the Standard toolbar) and pasted the image into Paint. I manipulated the image by copying a section at the right of the Gantt chart and pasting it over top of the portion of the Gantt chart I didn't want to display and then did a bit of tidying up. Total time: 30 seconds.