Office Quick Start Guide Page 4

Show off Project data

Trace task paths

With Project 2013, you can create crisp, colorful, professional reports without hav-

Does your Gantt chart look like a pile of spaghetti? With a complex project, your

ing to export your data to another program. Add pictures, charts, animation, links,

Gantt Chart can start to look like a tangled knot of bars and link lines. To help sort

and more — everything you need to clearly and effectively share project status info

this out, you can highlight the link chain — or task path — for any task. On the

with your stakeholders and team members.

Gantt Chart, click

Format

Task Path.

When you click a task, all of its predecessor tasks show up in one color and all of its

successor tasks show up in another color.

Click the

Report

tab (new for Project 2013), then select the report you want. Many

of the report drawing tools are the same for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project.

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