Hide a PERT chart link

[PERT Chart]

To make a PERT chart usefull it is sometimes necessary to hide links. Who is it possible to hide a particular link in order not to be displayer in the PERT chart, but withou removing that ling from the Ghantt chart?. Thanks.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You did not say which version of Project you're using. As you've used the
PERT word I guess it is version 98. Unfortunately you can't do this in
Project 98, but in later versions Format/Layout.../and change the colour of
the links to white.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on )

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello,

Not very easy, but you can, in the Network Diagram, go to Format /
Layout.../Link color : check "Match predecessor box border" option.
Then, select the predecessor box and : Format / Box / Border color : white.
May be you would like to set a background color for that naked box :
Format / Box / Background color ...

Hope this helps,

Just a question : could you explain to me when it is necessary to hide links
to make a PERT chart usefull ?
Thanks,

Gérard Ducouret

To make a PERT chart usefull it is sometimes necessary to hide links. Who

is it possible to hide a particular link in order not to be displayer in the
PERT chart, but withou removing that ling from the Ghantt chart?. Thanks.

 

[Steve House]

I'm sorry and no offense intended but what you are asking to do makes
absolutely no sense at all. How can it possibly be useful under any
circumstances to hide information about the primary forces that drive the
entire logic of the project schedule from the people who's duty it is to
meet that schedule for you? I can't imagine anyone who should be looking at
the PERT chart in the first place who shouldn't be privy to and intimately
familiar with the links that drive the project! As a PM your biggest worry
shouldn't be hiding the links from your stakeholders and resources, it
should be communicating them clearly and dramatically so as to insure
everyone involved feels the priorities of the project to the depths of their
souls and makes them their personal mission in life. If you are to be
successful you want and need buy-in, not ignorance and disengagement, from
the people you deploy to complete your project and the stakeholders whose
needs the project exists to satisfy. And that only happens when everyone
involved is fully informed. Don't hide the links - emphasise them in bright
red type! That's critical information you need to communicate to everyone
involved!!!

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

To make a PERT chart usefull it is sometimes necessary to hide links. Who

is it possible to hide a particular link in order not to be displayer in the
PERT chart, but withou removing that ling from the Ghantt chart?. Thanks.