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All You Need To Know About Date Headings

This article refers to version 2006. Click for Version 2008

Date headings .... they appear above the schedule area and there are quite a few to choose from. End of story. Right? Not necessarily! Learn how to master the date headings and you have mastered a key component of your Milestones schedule. Read on.

The straight story, in a nutshell - with references:

Date Heading Choices:

Date Headings appear above the schedule area.

			Choose from 35 standard date heading styles, ranging from years (even centuries) to minutes. MORE
			Headings can be above the schedule, below, or both. MORE
			Milestones Professional and Project Companion offer custom headings which extend date heading flexibility.
			Use "Curtains" to extend the date headings into the schedule area and highlight a holiday shutdown or critical schedule period. MORE
			Show a day or month at a time and "scroll" horizontally through your schedule. MORE
			Easily change the font size, style, color and shading of each heading level. MORE
			Milestones software supports dates from the year 100 CE (A.D.) through the year 7000 CE (A.D.) MORE

Choose from 35 standard date heading styles, ranging from years to minutes.

Up to 4 levels of headings per schedule.

HOW TO SET THE START AND END DATES FOR THE SCHEDULE:

Click

Enter the Starting Date and Ending Date or use the calendar icons to pick the dates.

HOW TO SET UP THE DATE HEADINGS:

1	Click for the Date Headings dialog box
2	Under Heading Type, choose up to four date headings for your schedule.

Numbered and lettered days of the week

Calendar years, quarters and months

Fiscal years, quarters and months

Custom Headings extend flexibility (Milestones Professional and Project Companion)

Milestones software supports dates from the year 100 CE (A.D.) through the year 7000 CE (A.D.). For dates outside this range, use custom headings.

Headings can be above the schedule, below the schedule (or both)

You have the option to place the date headings at the top, the bottom, or both the top and bottom of your schedule. By default, Milestones Professional places the date headings at the top of your schedule.

To change the date heading placement:

Click

Choose the heading Levels appropriate to your schedule.

Show at Top and/or Show at Bottom.

The schedule below shows the headings both at the top of the schedule and at the bottom:

Change the appearance of the Date Headings:

To color and add special effects to the Date Headings:


1	Click
2	Under Back Color, click the Press to Set button appropriate to the heading level to be colored. The Date Heading Background Color dialog box will appear.
3	Click the Change button for Background Color.
4	Choose a displayed color from the Color dialog box, or click on the Define Custom Colors button and define your own Custom Color.
5	For Define Custom Colors, once you define the color, click Add to Custom Colors.
6	Click OK.
7	Click the Change button for Effects Target Color choices, make a color selection, and click OK.
8	Scroll the Special Effects box to choose the type of gradient fill you want for the heading. The Background Color will fade into the Effects Target Color.

Change the font style/size and/or color:


1	With the arrow tool, click once on the heading you want to change.
2	In the toolbar, select the color, font, and other attributes (Bold, Italic, Size).

Scroll Horizontally through your schedule by time period

You can scroll through your schedule by any number of days so that you have a “sliding” time window. Simply press the Scroll the Date Range Behind

and Scroll the Date Range Ahead

buttons on the toolbar.

For example, set the number of "days to scroll by" to 30 to scroll a month at a time; or to 7 to scroll a week at a time. When you scroll, the starting and ending date of your schedule is changed by the number of days you specify.

Set the number of days by which to scroll:

		Click .
1		Click the Yearly/Monthly tab.
2		Under Calendar Range Scrolling, enter a value for Working days to scroll with Shift+PageUp/PageDn.
		Under Calendar Range Scrolling, enter a value for Working days to scroll with Shift+PageUp/PageDn.
		Click OK.

Scroll forward by the number of days you set (above):

1		Press the scroll right button on the toolbar

2		Or, hold down the Shift key and press the Page Down key.

Scroll forward by the number of days you set (above):

1		Press the scroll left button on the toolbar

2		Or, hold down the Shift key and press the Page Up key.

Remove a date heading

1	Click
2	Under Date Heading Type, for the heading you want to remove, scroll through the list until "None" is selected. It is the first entry in the list.
3	Click OK.