Is cell shading possible in MS Project?

[Gary Miksik]

I am trying to "shade" various cells in MS Project with different colors.
Excel provides this capability when you select "format cell" as an option.

 

[davegb]

No.

 

[Bobby]

You're going to have to wait for project 2007 to have this functionality.

 

[Mazin]

i am working with 2007 in Task usage i can not change the backround color of
the task only the summery task , i like two differant color one for summery
task and one for the tasks any ideas i can do one by one or manually it is a
3000 line project

 

[JulieS]

Hello Mazin Barbat,

I'm not sure why you cannot change the background color of all items
in the Task Usage view, including Summary tasks, non-summary tasks,
and assignments.

To speed things up over the 3000 lines, you could use filtering to
selectively hide tasks and then apply the background color to only
the visible tasks. For example, use the "Summary Task" filter
applied to the view, select all tasks (click the select all button
in the upper left corner of the table) and apply the background
formatting for the selected tasks. Then, turn off the display of
summary tasks through Tools > Options, View tab. Again, select all
tasks and apply the background formatting for non-summary tasks. You
could then create a custom filter showing only assignments, and
repeat the process.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Julie, hello Mazin,

I think that in the Format / Text Styles menu you have all these filters
already available.
Hope this helps,
Sincerely

Gérard Ducouret

 

[JulieS]

True enough, Gérard. I read the question as changing the background
color of the table

Julie