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Printing without Gantt

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Printing without Gantt

Hello,

I am trying to print only certain columns of my task sheet and not Gantt chart. Even when formatting it to look correct on my screen, when selecting printing it is showing more columns than I want.
If I try this in the tracking gantt view, it shows the entire gantt.

I would also like to save this as a PDF so only selecting the first 5 pages doesn't work.

Can you help?
thanks
Capucine

RE: Printing without Gantt

Hi again Capucine.

Here are 2 ways to print out only certain columns in the Gantt view.

1. Hide all the columns you don't need to see or

2. Create a custom table with the columns you want.

Then to see only the columns move the vertical split line to the right to hide the Gantt part of the view.

Note you can't use the option in File, Print, Page Setup
View, Print first 5 columns. This is used to repeat columns on every page (like Print Titles in Excel)

To create a Custom Table follow these steps...

1. Select View, Tables, More Tables
2. Select the table called Entry
3. Click Copy button
4. Give the table a name e.g My Table
5. Delete the rows not needed eg Predecessors, Resources
6. Click Show in Menu at top right.
7. Click Ok then Apply

Step 6 adds My Table to the list of tables available in Project.

Now move the split line to the right and only the tables in My Table should print.

Because the format is saved as a table next time you want to print go to More tables and choose My Tables.

Hiding columns may be the easiest method.

Extra thought
If it helps you can print out a Report of just the Tasks as follows:

Project, Reports, Custom, Task, Edit and choose My Table as the Table definition.

Printing PDFs

To create a PDF of the first 5 pages
Select File, Print
Choose Settings, page 1 to 5
Then change the Printer to PDFCreater
Click Print to create the PDF file.

The option Save & Send only seems to work for printing the entire Project in PDF format.

Hope that helps for now Capucine...

Doug
Best STL

Mon 27 Oct 2014: Automatically marked as resolved.

MS Project tip:

Typing Links Between Tasks

In the Entry table, use the Precessors column to type in links. Type the previous task's ID to link. To change the link, add FS (Finish-Start), FF (Finish-Finish), and so on, and + duration to add a Lag, or - duration for a Lead time. Example: for task 5, 4FS+1w ... task 4 preceeds task 5, finish to start, with a week lag between.

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