Step 1: From the Office Timeline ribbon click the Style button and select Scale
On Style Wizard’s Scale window, you will see the Language drop-down menu. Notice, when you roll your mouse over Language a red circle will appear over the first date on your time band. This lets you know that you can customize the date format.
Step 2: Choose the new language and click Finish
On the upper right of Scale window, you will see the Language drop-down menu. Notice, when you roll your mouse over Language or Date Format, a red circle will appear over the first date on your time band. This lets you know that you can customize the date format.
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Step 1: Open the task wizard and select your task
Bring your cursor to the left of the task you want to re-sort. Placing it over the up/down arrow in the far left column will change your cursor into a hand icon. Click to grab the task you want to move.
Step 2: Drag and drop the task row into a new position
As you drag the row up or down, a red guideline indicates where that row will be positioned when you drop it. You can also quick-sort the entire task table by simply clicking on the Start Date, End Date or Title column headers.
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Step 1: Change the thickness of your task bands
Adjusting the size of your task
Bands will create more space on the slide. To change the thickness of all of task at one time, click the Style button on the Office Timeline ribbon, and go to the Tasks tab. If you prefer to adjust them individually, select the desired task band and click the Task Pane button on the ribbon. From either of these places you can change the thickness of task bands to thin, regular or thick.
Step 2: Change the spacing between each task band
Narrowing the space between each task band will create additional space, allowing you to fit even more tasks on your slide. You can access the spacing controls from the Style Wizard or Task Pane, and set the spacing distance between each task to narrow, medium or wide.
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Step 1: From the Milestone or Task Wizard, click the Notes icon.
When editing a Milestone or a Task, click on the Notes icon to bring up the Note feature.
Step 2: Type or paste right into the Notes box.
This can be text from documents, tables from a spreadsheet or URL’s linking to important files on your desktop, team portal or internet.
Step 3: Save Notes by pressing the Finish button.
Remember these last two steps to make sure your Notes are properly saved.
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