Video: Vertical Text in Milestones Professional

You can have vertical column text, vertical symbol text, and vertical freeform text.

See how to do that, and some common formatting options for the vertical text in our newest video.

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May 2022 Tips and Tricks

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for May 2022 

Remove line in middle of bar
Can you tell me how to remove the line in the middle of the bar?  It seems to be at the schedule’s current date.

Apply a template to an existing schedule
When I apply a template to an existing schedule, the symbols and connectors do not look as I expected.  What could cause this?

Change the default save location
I would like to change the default location where charts are saved.  How can I do this?

Cleaner summary bar
On my Summary line is there any way to make the appearance cleaner?  The Project 8 and Project 10 symbols are overlapping:

Baseline symbols
I have created a schedule for proposal purposes, and I want to turn it over to the execution team.  The execution team wants to be able to maintain the original schedule bars, but include actual bars that they can status.  What’s the best way to do this?

Automatic word wrap
I imported my Microsoft Project schedule but some of the text doesn’t show in the columns.  I know I can increase the row height and see everything.  Just wondering if there is an automatic way to do this.

Link two symbols to show a date range
If I want to link two symbols with a line to show a date range in dates, how do I do that?  For example:

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for May 2022 

Upgrade to Milestones Professional 2021

Click here to Upgrade to Milestones Professional 2021 for only $199 (if you already own any version of Milestones Professional). To see what has changed, check out our “What’s New in Milestones Professional 2021” page.

Join the Milestones Professional Users LinkedIn Group

For anyone interested, there’s a free Milestones Professional user group on LinkedIn you can join to share best practices, network with other users, and maybe learn some tips along the way from other experienced Milestones users. To join, head over to the following website and click Join: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=6796817

Note: This user group is an unofficial group run by Milestones software users, and is not managed by KIDASA Software, Inc. A free LinkedIn account is required to join the group.