Print Scaling in resource Usage view

[Peter Rooney]

I'm printing out sections of the Resource usage view onto A3 paper.
I'm filtering down to a group of 8 resources, over a range of 2 weeks all of
which nicely fits on one page.

However, some overallocated resources have numbers like 15.25 (5 characters)
in their summary rows, so these figures print out as hashes - however, they
look OK on my print preview..!

I've tried increasing the print scale, but this doesn't work - in any case,
this obviates (ooh - big word for a Tuesday) what I'm trying to really do,
which is print 3 or 4 week summaries, and if I increase the print size, I get
a smaller range of weeks per printed page.

I can't alter the font size of the right hand side of the window, where all
this data is held, as the option is greyed out from the menu!

Does anyone have any suggestions - could I format the right hand side of the
widow to show only one decimal place, maybe?

Yours in anticipation of another humiliating lesson in "Project for Absolute
beginners"

Pete

 

[JulieS]

Hi Pete,

You have two choices that I can see. You can widen the columns in the
timescaled (right side) portion of the Resource Usage view by dragging any
one of the column headings. (Similiar to Excel). That will widen all columns.

You may also change the font size of the timescaled portion. Click your
secondary mouse button over the right side and choose Detail Styles... from
the shortcut menu. On the Usage Details tab click the Font... button and
switch to a smaller font. The font only shows as small as 8 points, but you
can type over the 8 to change to a smaller font - although anyone over 40 has
no prayer of reading it

Tragically, both of these may mess up (obviate is too large a word for this
time of morning) you desired printing format.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.
Julie

 

[Peter Rooney]

Julie,

Your first option doesn't seem to work for me - the only column width I can
alter in this way is the "Details" column. Perhaps I have a different version
to you - I'm running Project Jurassic, I think!

However, the second one does, so thank you very much!

Cheers

Pete

 

[JulieS]

Hi Pete,

Glad to know one of the options worked. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie