![]() In order to customize the appearance of the Gantt chart: click on “Format”. The critical tasks bars will appear in red. Critical task = a task that its slack is zero days, and delaying it by X days will delay the entire project by X days. In order to see the critical tasks, check the “Critical Tasks” box. The summary tasks don’t have any information next to them. On the right side of the blue bars are the resources allocated to the task, and on the right side of the rhombuses are end dates of the milestones. In the picture above, the gray bar at the top represents the entire span of the project, the black bars are the span of the summary tasks, the blue bars are the tasks and the gray rhombuses represent the milestones. Unless changed, the name that will appear in the “Task Name” of row zero will be the name given to the MPP file. In order to add the “Project Summary Task” (row zero): Go to the “Format” ribbon, and check the “Project Summary Task” box. The basic Gantt chart will then be created on the right side of the view.Set the predecessors and duration of each task.Insert the summary tasks, tasks and milestones of the work plan.The Gantt chart will automatically be created accordingly, but like any Microsoft product, the chart can be customized. The conventional method to create a Gantt chart in MS Project is to fill in the task names, dates and resources in the work plan (chart) section.
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