A little bit more advanced information in this video, but you can check out how to use Excel automation with Milestones Professional to automatically assign Symbol Tags to a schedule that doesn’t currently have symbol tags.

For example, if you built your Milestones Professional schedule but then decided later to link it to MS Project or P6, you can use this macro to accomplish that. The video goes over all the specifics of how to do that.Check out this video to see how!

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February 2026 Tips and Tricks

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for February 2026

Only one letter showing for month
Why is only one letter showing up for the months in my monthly date headings?

Move Milestones to primary monitor
I am using Remote Desktop to access my computer at work.  Sometimes my Milestones software is not visible.  I think it’s because it is on my secondary monitor.  Is there any way to force it to my primary monitor for Remote Desktop?

Transparent symbol using a clipping symbol
I’ve been trying to create a transparent satellite icon to use in my Milestones road map, but I keep running into an issue, every version I create ends up with a white block behind it when II copy it to PowerPoint. Since my road map uses colored swim lanes, the white box really stands out and breaks the visual formatting.

Add tags to a schedule using Excel
I want to use a table of unique IDs that I have in Excel to update the unique IDs on my Milestones schedule.  How do I do this?

Export schedule picture to Excel
Just wondering.. is there a way to put a picture of my schedule into Microsoft Excel?

Make a legend as a group
I would like to make a legend I can just drag around, but the standard legend options aren’t flexible enough for my needs.

For these and more, view Tips and Tricks for February 2026