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December 2025 Tips and Tricks

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Add pages to the schedule
How do I add a page to my schedule?

Fiscal and calendar quarters
How can I set up both fiscal and calendar years/quarters?

Shade individual task rows
I want to add a background color to individual tasks in a column.  For example, some of my tasks need to be shaded with a silver background.  How do I do this?

Shade multiple rows at one time
Can you tell me if there is a trick to shading multiple rows?  I usually end up shading row by row.

Move Milestones to primary monitor
The Milestones application does not open properly. When we attempt to launch it, the application loads briefly and then disappears. When hovering over it in the task bar, it only displays a white screen (see screenshot:).

Freeform text doesn’t stay in place
The Freeform Text Box seems to be floating with different zoom levels. I want the text box aligned to the outer frame but it shifts depending on the zoom level and sometimes goes past the edge.

Get rid of the dates on the symbols
I do not want the date to appear with my symbols.  Can I make this go away somehow?

Color code a symbol in a column
I have created a stoplight chart.  I want to color code an entry that is in a column.  I want the color to be red if it is an internal deliverable and blue if it is an external deliverable.  Is this possible?

Only part of schedule appears in PowerPoint
I used the Copy All Pages to PowerPoint feature to get my schedule into PowerPoint.  Only part of each page of the schedule appears in PowerPoint.  Any ideas?