Thick borders with Milestones Professional or Milestones Simplicity

Make your schedules really stand out at your next project briefing

Do you want your schedules to stand out at project briefings? Read on!

The Milestones Simplicity schedule below has a thick border effect which makes for a crisp and colorful presentation. This article describes how to do this.

Click here to download a Milestones Simplicity example (works in both Milestones Simplicity and Milestones Professional) or see the instructions below the example to learn how to add this effect to one of your schedules.

First, you need to know that the thick border is really not a border. The thick "border" on the left and right sides of the schedule are actually thin columns which have the column heading color and column colors set to the same color.

The thick "border" below the schedule is actually an empty legend which has a height matching the width of the two columns.

Tricky? Yes, maybe a little. Here's how it's done:

		To set up your "borders":
1		On the File menu, choose Page Layout.
2		Choose the Columns and Rows tab.
3		Under "Left Text Column Widths", set your left most column width to 0.2.
4		Under "Right Text Column Widths", set your left most column width to 0.2.
5		Now, choose the Legend tab.
6		Set the "Legend Height" to 0.2
7		Click OK

		To color your left and right "borders":
1		Using the arrow tool, double-click the headings for one of the new columns.
2		On the column heading tab, set the "Heading Background Color" to the color you want for your border.
3		On the Column Formatting tab, set the "Column Background Color" to the same color.
4		Repeat for the other column.

		To color your bottom "border":
1		Choose Legend on the Format menu.
2		Set the legend's Background color to the color you used for the left and right columns.
3		De-select the "Leave a Gap between Chart and Legend" option.

That's all there is to it! Click here to download an example.

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Thick Borders