If you compare the schedule of red and blue Gantt bars with their accompany gray Gantt bars (the Baseline schedule), you can easily see if tasks are slipping. Gray Gantt bars represent the original Baseline schedule of each task The Office Timeline add-in allows you to transform Microsoft Project data into PowerPoint timeline and roadmap slides quickly and easily. Select a task bar (or more) and, from the Style Pane, click on Narrow under the Spacing options to reduce the space between your selected bar. Blue Gantt bars represent the current schedule of non-Critical tasks (tasks that can slip at least some without impacting the final Finish date of the project)ģ. To do so, select a task bar that has the desired thickness, click the dropdown arrow on the Apply to All button below the Size and Spacing options, and choose Size. Red Gantt bars represent the current schedule of Critical tasks (tasks that cannot slip without impacting the final Finish date of the projectĢ. The Gantt Chart screen in the Tracking Gantt view displays three different colors of Gantt bars. On the other hand, if you are referring to the Gantt Chart view, you can see the information you want to see by applying the Tracking Gantt view. When you use the term 'timeline' in your post, are you referring to the Timeline view or are you referring to the Gantt Chart view that shows the timeline of the project? If you are referring to the Timeline view, there is no way to customize this view to show the Baseline Start and Baseline Finish fields.

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