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Quickly and easily a produce summary plan with 2 levels of swimlanes
13.08.2022Quickly and easily a produce summary plan with 2 levels of swimlanesSummaryPro has had a significant upgrade; with a few button clicks, you can now produce a summary plan with up to 2 levels of swimlane from scratch in minutes.
How to use the Progress Line to make your plan update easier
27.07.2022How to use the Progress Line to make your plan update easierUsing the “progress line” in MS Project to make updating your plan easy - simply scroll down the plan to see where tasks “should” have progressed to.
Why Timelords don’t plan or avoiding issues when updating your plan
27.07.2022Why Timelords don’t plan or avoiding issues when updating your planTo maximise the effectiveness of your plan it is important to adjust the start and finish dates to match the project’s current reality. In this blog I explore work in the past and future and why Timelords shouldn't plan.
How to improve
19.07.2022How to improve "buy-in" to the plaHow to increase buy-in and support for your plan and project. Looking at the four main groups; the project team, the customer, the sponsor and senior team and the wider stakeholders
How to use the MS Project Timeline to produce a Plan on a Page (POAP) summary
18.07.2022How to use the MS Project Timeline to produce a Plan on a Page (POAP) summaryHow to use the Timeline view in MS Project and a comparison of this useful tool with the more powerful option of SummaryPro
Working with baselines
12.07.2022Working with baselinesHow to work with and display baselines in MS Project and SummaryPro.
How to constrain a meeting task to a specific day of the week
12.04.2022How to constrain a meeting task to a specific day of the weekHow to constrain a task or meeting to a specific day of the week in MS Project using a new calendar.
How to find out what is driving a task in MS Project
11.04.2022How to find out what is driving a task in MS ProjectHow to see what is driving a task in MS Project. Three different methods which MS Project provides.
Show % complete for Summary lines made up of only milestones
30.03.2022Show % complete for Summary lines made up of only milestonesHow to display % complete in an MS Project summary task when it contains only Milestones. Normally this will only show 0% or 100% which stops you from showing progress.
MS project - how to jump to today
30.03.2022MS project - how to jump to todayHow to jump to today's date in MS project. How to put a macro onto the Ribbon with a custom button.
Sum VLOOKUP across a whole table - a fast way to do many Vlookup calculations
09.03.2022Sum VLOOKUP across a whole table - a fast way to do many Vlookup calculationsHow to apply VLOOKUP to many cells in a table at once. How to split text cells into columns to allow this to be useful.
Extract dates from a Visio diagram
06.03.2022Extract dates from a Visio diagramHow to extract dates from an existing Plan on a Page in Visio. This is useful when reverse engineering an existing POAP into SummaryPro.
the 56 standard colours in Excel - ColorIndex values or pallte
18.02.2022the 56 standard colours in Excel - ColorIndex values or pallteDefinition of the 56 standard colours in Excel
Use Excel custom formats to show emoji and text
18.02.2022Use Excel custom formats to show emoji and texthow to use the Excel Custom formatting to change colour, add emojis and change numbers to text.
How to display a cell's colour in Excel
06.12.2021How to display a cell's colour in ExcelHow to display the RGB colour code for a cell in Excel
An easy way to make fully dynamic related drop-down boxes
05.12.2021An easy way to make fully dynamic related drop-down boxesAn easy way to make dynamic linked drop-down boxes from a dynamic data set without using named ranges and the indirect function
How to produce a list of weekdays in Excel
16.11.2021How to produce a list of weekdays in ExcelHow to display only weekdays in excel - three simple methods.
How to make a dynamic drop-down box
15.11.2021How to make a dynamic drop-down box How to make dynamic drop down boxes in excel using Data Validation and tables.
How to make many levels of dependent drop-down boxes
15.11.2021How to make many levels of dependent drop-down boxesHow to make many related drop-down boxes that are dependent on each other. This uses the table method to provide dynamic lists
Excel – how to make a drop-down dependent on another drop-down
09.11.2021Excel – how to make a drop-down dependent on another drop-downExcel: how to make the choices in one drop-down box dependent on the choice in another without using VBA. Uses named ranges and Data Validation.
Automatically pulling data from other sheets into a dashboard
08.11.2021Automatically pulling data from other sheets into a dashboardhow to automatically pull data from many sheets into a single sheet. Useful when combining many sheets into one to make a dashboard. Uses the INDIRECT formula to make this simple and quick.
How to convert an Excel Gantt chart into a MS Project plan
12.10.2021How to convert an Excel Gantt chart into a MS Project planHow to convert a Gantt in Excel into a Project Plan in MS Project. Simple step by step instructions to automate the process and avoid errors.
Filter using today() in MS Project
11.10.2021Filter using today() in MS ProjectHow to use today's date in MS Project when Microsoft Project doesn't have the today() function like Excel. Then use this to generate a filter that shows which Milestones are due in the next 2 weeks.
How to see what is driving a task in MS Project
23.09.2021How to see what is driving a task in MS ProjectHow to see what is driving any given task or milestone in your MS Project plan using either the Task Inspector or Task Path functionality in MS Project.
Bug fix - missing major swimlanes
25.08.2021Bug fix - missing major swimlanesBig fix: missing major swimlanes in Visio. How to check this bug applies and then easily add them back in.
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