Network View Printing

[Sue Moore]

Is there anyway to get the Network View to condense for
printing purposes, but still making it legible. I tried
the auto layout, and requested specific pages, but
the "boxes" seem far apart. There must be a way to get
them to move closer without having to manually move them.

Please help.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Sue,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

There are a number of settings you can try but you'll need to experiment.
Firstly, in File/Print Preview/Page Setup.../Page tab you can adjust the
Scale or Fit to settings. Try printing out the first page only to check
readability.

If that's not to your needs, then try View/Zoom, there's plenty of scope
there. You can also try Format/Box Styles... and edit which fields are
shown (click the More Templates button and you can Edit the font size).

Then there is Format/Layout... where you adjust the alignment spacing
between the boxes.

Have fun!

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Sue Moore]

I have tried all the suggestions. My plan has over 800
items. I need to print for review, but it has 25 pages at
34 x 44". There is a lot of blank space. I would think
the auto format would bring everything in the best
arrangement, with the least space in between. It however
does not seem to do that. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Sue

 

[BJ]

Sue - Try PERT Chart Expert from Critical Tools (www.criticaltools.com).
It's a Project add-on and does a nice job of organizing the boxes in a
Network View.

 

[Sue Moore]

Have you used this before? How user friendly is it? Does
it perform other functions?

Thanks for the tip.

Sue

 

[Sue Moore]

Would VISIO help in printing the Network View in
a "waterfall" format?

Has anyone used VISIO with Microsoft Project? Are they
even linkable?

Thanks

 

[Steve House]

Yes, they are. Note that Visio 2000's macros to import data from MS
Project's mpp file format seem to have been shipped broken, but they
work like a champ in Visio XP/2002 and 2003. You can read data directly
from MSP into Visio to create a Network Diagram, Timeline, or Gantt
chart (though I don't know why you'd want to for the Gantt since
Project's Gantt chart is much more useful).