PRJ: How Microsoft Project Displays Overlapping Gantt Bars (70898)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Project 2000
- Microsoft Project 98 for Windows
- Microsoft Project for Windows 95 4.1
- Microsoft Project for Windows 95 4.1a
- Microsoft Project for Windows 1.0
- Microsoft Project for Windows 3.0
- Microsoft Project for Windows 3.0a
- Microsoft Project for Windows 4.0
- Microsoft Project for the Macintosh 1.1
- Microsoft Project for the Macintosh 3.0
- Microsoft Project for the Macintosh 4.0
This article was previously published under Q70898 SUMMARY
Microsoft Project displays Gantt bars in the order that they are specified
in the Bar Styles dialog box (accessed by selecting Bar Styles from the Format menu).
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When making changes to the Gantt Bar Styles, it is important to consider
the order in which your Gantt bars are defined. If more than one Gantt bar is defined for a particular row in the Gantt Chart, the bars are drawn in the order they are listed in the Bar Styles dialog box. This can result in some bars not being displayed as expected.
For example, in the default Gantt Chart view, a progress bar will
be drawn on top of Critical and Noncritical tasks that have a Percent Complete value of greater than zero. This is because the progress bar is defined after the critical and noncritical bars in the Bar Styles list. If the progress bar was listed as the first bar in Bar Styles, it would be overwritten by the other bars and not appear on the display.
When defining bars for your Gantt Bar Styles, be sure to do so in the proper order so that the ones you want on top are drawn last. The top-most bars should appear at the bottom of your Bar Styles list.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/25/2003 |
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| Keywords: | kbhowto kbusage KB70898 |
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