Office Timeline Tips

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 … [Read more...] about Quick Tip #3: Add Notes and Links

Step 1:  Click the Change button on the Office Timeline ribbon in PowerPoint From your timeline slide, click on the Change button to open your styling options. Step 2: Select a new style. Select Flat or Gel to choose between a modern look for your timeline, or a rounded look with shadows. select the Chronology Table to automatically create a new slide with your … [Read more...] about Quick Tip #5: Instantly change the look of your timeline or convert it to a table.

Step 1: Manually re-position your milestone markers. Click on the text box of the milestone you want to re-position and drag it vertically to a new position as shown in the image below. This can be done for both milestones that are positioned above or below the time band. Step 2: Click accept and choose Accept Manual Changes. Once you have moved your milestone to the … [Read more...] about Quick-Tip #2: Position Milestones Exactly Where You Want Them

Step 1. Copy from Excel. Organize your Task and Milestone data into two Excel tables as shown here. Task tables should include a start date, end date and a description arranged next to each other. Milestone tables should have a milestone date and description also arranged next to each other.  Now copy your first table. Step 2: Click the Paste icon. From the Office … [Read more...] about Quick Tip #1: Copy and Paste from Excel