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Now through out this tutorial we have dealt with a Gant chart that is the standard garden variety Gant chart which has blue tasks and black progress bars and big, black double headed arrow kind of bars for the summary tasks and diamond for milestones and so on and so on. Well you can change all this if you want to and of course once you have it changed it will be reflected in a printed document so if you want to you can always do so. Go to the format menu and what I recommend is that you just quickly run through the Gant chart wizard if you want to change the look and feel of things and also can add a lot of practical value to a view. Here's the welcome page, Welcome to the Gant chart wizard, you'll click on next to get things started. What information do you want? Standard information? Critical path information? Baseline information or other? So we have changed views previously in order to garner this information from a Gant chart but we can also change things or change the way the Gant chart looks so that this information is more readily identifiable. Now again if we just want to quickly see what the baseline is and click on finish we are ready to go. We'll say format it and it knows, does this in the background and we're ready to exit the wizard. Now I can always do undo once again, so I just did that, I did a control Z. So just because I go to the format menu and step through the Gant chart wizard, I'm still just applying one set of formatting changes. So multiple changes but it's one undo step as far as how project tracks things is concerned. So I can step through again, I also have some other standard styles that I can choose from and there is a list here that makes this very, very easy and of course as a project manager your probably first order of business is to track tasks and costs and things like that and not worry too much about how things look. That's why I recommend that you don't spend a whole lot of time here but if you want to identify the critical path in style one or style two or style three, click on next, certainly be my guest. Now what information do you want with your Gant bars, resources and dates, dates none and so on. So if it would be more helpful for you to look at a bar and say aha, here's 9-3 when it starts, here's 9-5 when it ends, we can also add custom task information of course and depending on the choices you make here it will change subsequent choices in your Gant chart wizard. So other, let's just do critical path style 2, dates, next you want to show link lines, absolutely I do but again you don't have to. And at any of these times, any of these steps in the wizard, notice that you can just finish and be done with it once you've got it the way you want to. So once again those steps will change in the wizard depending on what your selections are exactly and then when your done format it and exit the wizard and now you got a Gant chart, using the Gant chart wizard that looks exactly the way you want it to.