What’s new in Milestones Professional 2021?

Re-imagined MS Project to Milestones Wizard
New “Quick View” – Quickly see what’s in an MPP, XML, or XER file
Import from MS Project without having MS Project installed
Import from MS Project XML improved
Primavera XER Import Added
Improved 4k Support for Menus
Symbol Number Overlays
Font Increase / Decrease Buttons

Manage Task Row Overrides
Reset “Hide Vertical Connections” For Symbols
Center Symbol Text on Bar when Start Date is Hidden
Skip Empty Tasks in Task Number Column
Sidebar: Undo / Redo Added
New Internet Publishing Option
Insert a Toolbox Row into the Legend
And Much More!

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New Project to Milestones Wizard

Use the wizard to import from Project (with or without Project installed), Primavera (XML and XER) and other products using Project XML. The Wizard offers four main choices, shown below.

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New: Import from Primavera XER

Primavera’s preferred method of exchanging project information with other products is the XER format. Milestones Professional can now import directly from this format. There are two options for importing. Use either the Project to Milestones Wizard, or Milestones Professional’s Custom Import.

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New Quick View Option

With our new Quick View option, you can quickly import an MPP, XER, or XML file to see most of the contents of that file:

You can either use this default template, or design your own:

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4k Monitor Support Improved

The days of VGA, SuperVGA and even 1024 are over! 4K monitors are now very common, even on laptops. Especially for these hi-res monitors an option has been added to increase the font size of Milestones Professional’s toolbar:

Older fonts:

Newer fonts:

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Symbol Number Overlays

Have a very dense schedule with symbols on many levels of each task row? Now it’s easy to visually tell which actual row your symbols are on.

In the example below, it’s easy to see where the symbols belong.

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Font Increase/Decrease Buttons Added

We have added font size increase and decrease buttons to most toolbars. They will set the font size to the next or previous available size in the dropdown and refresh the screen.

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Easily Manage Task Row Overrides

A new “Manage” option has been added to the Tools | manage dropdown menu:

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Options added to make managing symbols easier

An option was added to the Manage Symbols dialog that lets you remove the hide vertical connections overrides for all symbols at once:

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Center Text on Bar with Hidden Start Date

In prior versions, when “center text on bar” was chosen, the text was centered on the bar even if that meant the symbol text might be off the visible part of the schedule.

Before (if start is outside date range)

Now (if start is outside date range)

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Skip Empty Tasks when Numbering

Now if you use a Task Number column, you can tell Milestones to skip certain rows when calculating the task number.

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Undo and Redo added to Sidebar Shortcuts

It is now possible to have both Undo and Redo shortcuts in the sidebar. They are visible by default:

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New Internet Publishing Option

A new option in the Internet Publishing Wizard allows you to set an option that make symbol hyperlinks open in new tabs or windows in the browser instead of overlaying the current page:

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Insert a Toolbox Row Into the Legend

If you are using the standard toolbox you can select a row in the Toolbox and then right-click to insert that row into the Legend:

Legend Before:

Legend After:

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