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Now if you just heard the previous module which was customizing the tables, customizing views is going to look very similar and that's just a matter of creating a view that works best for you. Maybe you find that the Gant chart doesn't give you quite all the information you need or some of your resource sheets you'd like to have some additional information or you want to make a split view that has a couple of different of these views that you can use at once. Well all you have to is click on the view menu and now instead of applying one of these predefined views click on more views which we've used it from time to time through out this tutorial. So we've used like the leveling Gant and sometimes the detail Gant to view different information but you have a wide variety of the views that you can use. For example what if we want to combine two of these into a single view, well we'll have a hard time doing it unless we did this. And that is to click on new and then you can either define a single view or a combination view and once again the click steps after this become just a matter of filling in the appropriate dialog boxes that show up like this one here. So here's the view definition, we'll just call this VTC view and the view displayed in the top is going to be let's say the Gant chart and the bottom is going to be the detail Gant or let's change the detail Gant on the bottom and the- let's go down to task usage, so let's say we want that and do we want to show this in the menu? Click on OK and there we've just created this brand new view. To apply it I can click on apply and there is the results of the new view that I just created. Also if I switch back and forth I can go to the Gant chart here, I can remove the split at anytime I wanted to go back to that I can use VTC view, because I choose to add it to the menu and bingo I'm right back in that customize view. One other very cool thing you can do with this by the way, if I switch back to, I'll remove the split, go back to the Gant, let's say I'm defining a view and click on more views, create a new view. With the single view what you have a choice of is not only can you can like in a split view you just say I want this above this or this below this, but you can also do this, your name is VTC 2, let's say, now I won't create this officially but you can create a view that combines lots of different items that you've created. So if you have a resource sheet view you can apply one of the tables that you've created so here's a customized table that I created. I'm going to create a view that leverages that table once more I'm going to use a filter so the cost greater then are cost over budgets and I can even possibly use a customized filter that I created. So cost over budget again showing menu, so resource group is how I'm going to group things, so all of these different items that we've learned in the preceding modules can be combined to create a single view which of course would be most useful for your particular needs.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft Project 2007
Author: Brian Culp
SKU: 33825
ISBN: 1-934743-31-3
Release Date: 2007-11-20
Duration: 5 hrs / 90 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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