Changing the way linked tasks appear in Gantt Chart view.

[Jill]

I know that I can right click on the page, click Layout, then I have 3
different options on how I would like the link to appear. Most of the time I
want to use the option to the far right (the arrow drops straight down to the
next bar) but on some of the tasks I have linked, they are far apart on the
task list (and they have to be). It really clutters up the nice pretty image
with the link lines stretched down a few pages, plus it is unnecessary in
this circumstance. Is there a way to only change the apperence of selected
linked tasks? Everytime I try, it changes all of them.

Thanks for the help!

 

[JulieS]

Hi Jill,

No sorry. Individual link styles cannot be edited.

Julie

 

[salgud]

I know that I can right click on the page, click Layout, then I have 3
different options on how I would like the link to appear. Most of the time I
want to use the option to the far right (the arrow drops straight down to the
next bar) but on some of the tasks I have linked, they are far apart on the
task list (and they have to be). It really clutters up the nice pretty image
with the link lines stretched down a few pages, plus it is unnecessary in
this circumstance. Is there a way to only change the apperence of selected
linked tasks? Everytime I try, it changes all of them.

Thanks for the help!

If you're using your Gantt Chart to determine dependencies, you're going to
have a lot of problems. Gantt's don't do that very well. That's what the
Network Diagram is for. Unforunately, the MS Project Gantt in default
format, is clumsy at best. If you minimize the information in each box,
then reduce their size and the space between them, you have a much more
useful ND where you can see the relationships much more clearly than you
ever will in a Gantt.

Hope this helps in your world.