Video: Use Excel and P6 with Milestones Professional

Check out how you can export an excel file from P6, remove some tasks, and import the rest into Milestones Professional. Then, you can see how to Refresh the data directly from a P6 XER file if your dates change.

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July 2025 Tips and Tricks

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for July 2025

Mysterious item on my schedule
There is a box on my schedule that I can’t select. I think it’s a text box.

Custom indicators for a Values column
I want to show a stoplight column based on text or a number in another column. Can I do this?

Move a column
How do I move a column from one side of the schedule to the other?

Numbered date headings
I want numbers instead of letters or month names in the date headings. This is for a project proposal. I don’t know when the project will start.

Vertical lines similar to current date line
Can you please let me know whether I can insert a date line which is not a current date or status date but just a vertical line at a specific date.

Duration values for single milestones
Why does a single milestone automatically have a 0-day duration instead of 1 day?

Control the percent complete fill on a summary bar
I need some help with Milestone Professional. The summary bar “fill to status date” roll-up does not represent the indented “fill to status date” tasks below the summary. Am I missing something or doing it incorrectly or what?

Add a stoplight column
What is the easiest way to add a stoplight column to my schedule? I want to control the color of the stoplight for each task.

Dashed connectors appear when solid is set in the toolbox
I have a solid horizontal connector in the toolbox but the connectors on the schedule are coming out dashed, what’s the deal with that?

Don’t want short pages when using page breaks
Is there a way to use a page break which doesn’t truncate the bottom of the chart? I want my pages to all be the same number of tasks per page.

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for July 2025

Upgrade to Milestones Professional 2025

Click here to Upgrade to Milestones Professional 2025 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 2025” 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.