Percentage Complete indication in Summary Bar.

[Rick S.]

Can anyone tell me how to show percentage complete on the summary bars? It shows up fine for the individual task, but not the summaries. Any feedback appreciated
Rick

 

[John Beamish]

Format | Bar styles ... choose the Summary bars row, click on the Text
Tab, choose
Left, Right, Top, Bottom or Inside and select % Work Complete or %Complete
as
appropriate.

JLB, PMP

Can anyone tell me how to show percentage complete on the summary bars?
It shows up fine for the individual task, but not the summaries. Any
feedback appreciated.
Rick

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[Rick S.]

Thanks John, that put the actual % Complete figure into the summary bar, but is there a way of creating the % Complete black bar as per the individual tasks, into the summary bar?
Rick

 

[John Beamish]

I don't believe so. This is as close as you can get:

Select the sub-tasks that you want rolled up.
Click on the Task Information button (it looks like a tabbed card) on the
Standard toolbar
Click on the General tab
Set the Roll up Gantt bar to summary box to "checked".

If you want to do this as a default (and not just with selected tasks)
click on Format | Layout and put a checkmark in "Always roll up Gantt
bars".

Thanks John, that put the actual % Complete figure into the summary bar,
but is there a way of creating the % Complete black bar as per the
individual tasks, into the summary bar?
Rick

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[Mike Glen]

Hi Rick,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Format/Text Styles, scroll down to the next blank space and enter Summary.
Chose a thin style and give it a colour. In show for: enter Summary, from:
Start to: Complete through.

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

 

[Rick S.]

Thanks Mike

I was a bit busy doing other things but finally got back to my MS Project issue. Your suggestion did the trick, and I now have a dark green line as well as a number indicating percentage complete for my Summaries. You had me worried though, since you wrote 'Format/Text Styles' instead of 'Format/Bar Styles', but figured it out

Appreciate your help Mike and John, and until next time.

Rick

 

[Mike Glen]

OOOPs! - sorry!

Mike