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Custom Formatting for Presentation 9-1
Chapter 9: Custom Formatting for Presentation
One of the key strengths of Milestones Simplicity is its excellent customization and presentation capability. Virtually
every aspect of your schedule, including background colors, shading patterns, special fading effects, symbol colors,
bar colors, and chart size can be customized.
Apply a template to quickly change the look of the schedule.
Charts and Templates
Templates retain the formatting (the
“look” of a chart) while charts preserve
schedule details (such as task names,
dates, value entries, etc.) and the
schedule format.
You can overlay a blank schedule (a
chart) with a template and then fi ll-in the
schedule data, or overlay an existing
chart with a template.
Standard Templates come with the
software and can be applied at any
time, even while using the Milestones
Simplicity Setup Wizard, found by
clicking File | Files and Templates:
Open and Save Options | Wizard.
Personal Templates are user-created,
saved, and then applied to charts.
When saving a fi le as a Personal Template or Standard Template, these elements of the schedule are saved with
the template:
• The schedule layout - chart size, margins,
column widths, legend height, rows per
page
• Background color, frame and shadow
• Calendar icons in date SmartColumns
• Chart title text format and background
format (but not the chart title text)
• Column headings and SmartColumn
settings
• Current date line and text display
• Date headings and all timescale settings
• Date sensitivity options
• Default symbol size
• Default text styles
• Dependency mode setting
• Embedded graphics
• Gridline settings
• Legend entries and legend format
• Month and weekday name overrides
• Override Symbol Date and Text Display
options
• Page number display
• Status line display toggle and properties
• Symbol date format Toolbox settings,
including the size of the toolbox, and the
symbols and bars used
When saving a fi le as a Personal Template or Standard Template, these elements of the schedule are NOT saved
with the template: