Why I can’t see the “Bar Styles” button in ribbon on the Mac platform?
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If the “Bar Styles” button is not visible in ribbon, please press  "More" button. You should be able to find in the dropdown the button that doesn't fit inside the ribbon because of the small window size.

What is Timescale?
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A ruler with time units, used usually in association with a Gantt Chart, to measure the duration of tasks. Time units may vary from minutes to hours, days, weeks, months or years.

How can I move task bar at an hour level?
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For moving Gantt bars, we only support day steps.

How can I resize a task bar at an hour level?
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For resizing Gantt bars, we only support half day steps.

How do I change the timescale to days?
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In order to change the timescale to hours, go to the Format menu and then select the Timescale option. Click on Bottom Tier tab, from "Units" field select "Hours" and then click OK. Please know that Units from all tiers should match for the changes to apply. For example, the units from "Bottom Tier" can't be in days and the ones from "Middle Tier" in hours.

How can I change the color of the resources?
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To change the color of a specific resource, select the resource and then go to the Task menu and from Font Control change the color for the specific resource. If you want to change the color for all resources, go to the Format menu and select the "Text Styles" option. Make the desired changes and then click "OK" in the dialog.

How do I change the size of characters?
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To change the size of the tasks, select the task and then go to menu Task – and from Font Control change the size of that specific task. If you want to change the font for all tasks or a group of tasks, please go to menu Format – Text Style.

How do I put colors on my text?
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To color the text please select the tasks then go to Task menu – Font Control. Change the color by clicking on the “Text Color” button.

How can I change the text style for only one line?
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To change the text style for a task or resource, select the entire row and then go to menu Task – Font Control.

How do I add color to a cell?
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To make format changes to a cell, click on the cell then go to menu Task and from Font Control make the needed changes.

Can I make the tasks Strikethrough?
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To make a task strikethrough, click on the task, go to the Task menu and then from “Font Control”, click on the “Strikethrough” button.

How do I change the text style for a task to Bold?
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To make the Text Style of a task Bold, click on the task, go to the Task menu and then from “Font Control”, click on the “Bold” button.

How do I make the text from a task Underlined?
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To Underline the text of a task, click on the task , go to the Task menu and then from “Font Control” click on the “Underline” button.

Why don’t tasks change style even if I apply the new text style for “All” tasks?
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If the appearance of a task is not changed after applying customizations made in the “Text Styles” dialog, it is because that task was already changed by using the “Font Control” option. Changes made to the style of a task by using “Font Control” options will not be overridden when applying a style from the “Text Styles” dialog.

How can I customize grid appearance in Task Sheet, Resource Sheet, Gantt Chart or Tracking Gantt views?
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The font style of tasks or resources can be changed either by using the “Text Styles” option from the “Format” menu or the “Font control” option from the “Task” menu. By using the “Text Styles” option, the style for a category of tasks (summary, milestones, etc.) or resources (highlighted, overallocated) can be changed at the same time. By using the “Font control” option, the changes will be applied only to the selected task or resource from the grid.

Can the views be customized in the app?
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Views can be customized by using the “Text Styles", "Font Control", "Bar Styles" or "Bar" functionalities from the "Format" and “Task” menu.

How to make the text red for multiple tasks?
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To change the text color for multiple tasks, select the tasks then go to Task menu – Font Control . Press Text Color button and then select from the dropdown the color you want.

How to make multiple columns text style Italic ?
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To change the text style for multiple columns to Italic hold CTRL and select the columns by clicking on their names, then go to Task menu and from Font Control, click on “I” to change the font style to Italic.

How to make all cells within the Start column red ?
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To change the background color for a column, click on the column name then go to Task menu and from Font control click on the Background color button and change the color you want.

How do I change the font for a task or for a set of tasks?
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To change the font settings for a task or for a set of selected tasks, select the Task menu and from Font Control apply the needed settings.

How to change the language in Project Plan 365?
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To change the language in Project Plan365, go to File – Options and then click General Settings tab – Language or go to Help – Select Language. For changes to take effect, you must restart the application.

How to change color of arrows from task to task?
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To change the color of the line between task bars, please select a color from menu Format-Gantt Chart Style. Then, in order to change the color of the bars, please go to menu Format – Bar Styles.

How to change all the bars from Bar Styles?
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To change the bar style for all tasks, please click on Format menu - Bar Styles. Then, for each type of task you can change the bar appearance.

How can I modify the text from bars to appear on top of them?
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In order to modify the text from bars to appear on top of them, go to the Format menu and then select the Bar Styles option. Then, select the "Text" tab and from "Top" select the desired value and press "OK".

How to set a background color for all tasks?
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In order to change the background color for all tasks, go to the "Format" menu and select the "Text Styles" option. From "Items to Change" select "All" and from "Background" select the desired color and press "OK".