 Hi my name is Richard Walters and in this demonstration we're going to look at formatting in Microsoft Project. The formatting will cover formatting bars, formatting text, formatting non-working and other areas of formatting in Microsoft Project and these will now be covered in the video. In this demonstration we're going to look at formatting in Microsoft Project. So there's a variety of different formatting options and we look at some of these formatting options. So for example one format of formatting option might be the non-working the Saturday and Sunday in the chart area of Gantt chart. This could be updated by using the timescale area where you can see the M2F and the week segments. So this timescale area can be activated through a double F click and the gray box appears called timescale or you could actually activate it on the right click over the timescale area and then you'll see the option timescale and again you can activate it. So I'll continue now to the non-working time and we'll have a look at the color. We'll change the color of the gray bars. I'll pick a different color. I'll go for light blue this time and there's a different color. If you don't like that color much, I don't like it and go back to timescale and pick another color as a different color gray and I'll leave it at that example. Now we might want the non-working bars to have a different appearance. We can do this through time to the timescale area. If I go to the non-working at the moment there are what's called behind task bars. If you bring them in front to the task bars that means you'll see the task bar only showing when it's working. So you won't see this blue bar going over both weekends. It'll actually then just segment itself between the weekends. So I'll go in front of the bars and there we go. So any task that goes over weekends now shows itself separated. We know exactly when it's working. So some like this way of looking and others don't. I'll take it back to its default and I'm going to put it to the default behind taskbars. You can change the color of the taskbars. So for example I wanted the blue bars to change to a different color. I can do this by going to the Gantt chart format tab, the format of the narrow bar styles. I'll pick a different color in this example. I'll go for a darker green and there's the bar colors now. Now I might want to make a certain part of the project, a certain color for an instance you'll do the advertising section. There's four tasks to do with advertising. I want these to be a certain color. In this case I've highlighted them. Format up the narrow again. This time just bar and I'll now pick the color of these particular bars. I'm going to go for a darker gray and that's the appearance of present now. There's lots of other formatting options. I'll have a look at what's called the changed cells now. So when you make a change to project, so it's an example I changed the link of first and second interviews presently. I've finished the start. I'll change it to start to start. The changed cells appear in a light blue shading and this now shows you what's the impact of the change you've made. So I'm going to take it back to its finished start and if you ever wanted to get rid of the blue shading you can always just type in a new task and get rid of it. So then I'm going to get rid of this blue shading so I'll type in a word test and then just delete it. Now I want that changed color to look a different color. I want it to look more of a darker blue with a white font against it. So I'm going to go to the Gantt chart for my tab again. Text styles this time and I'm going to go to the item to change. Drop the arrow and choose changed cells. In the light blue you can now see I'm going to take it to a dark blue and I'm going to go for white font to go with it and if I make a change again, so I'll change the second link to start to start and you can see now it looks more a bit easy to see. The stands are a bit more on the change instead of the light blue. So all these can be changed. We'll do one more change in this example. I look at the where we look at the time scale area earlier on. That's got different tiers like the example, the middle tier in this example is the week segments and the bottom tier is the day. I'm going to affect the middle tier because I want the end of each of the weeks to show me a nice clear line of where that week is finishing and I can do this through grid lines. So I go to the Gantt chart format tab, format section of the ribbon, grid lines drop the line and choose grid lines and I'm going to go to the middle tier section and choose a line that I want and a color that I want. So I'm going to go for a darkish blue and now we can see a nice dark blue coming on the end of every week. So it sort of makes the Gantt chart stand out a bit more in the Gantt chart area. But these are some examples of format in this many more, but this gives you an idea of what can be done with format in in Microsoft Project. This now completes the video demonstration on format in. Thanks for watching. See you in the next video.