Milestones in MS Project Pro

Contents:

1. Using milestones in project schedule in MS Project Pro
2. Adding milestones in project schedule in MS Project Pro
3. Customize the style of strategic milestones on the gantt chart in MS Project Pro
4. Chat

Using milestones in project schedule in MS Project Pro

You can use the milestones in project schedule for describe some events.

• External events that affect the project.
• Project internal events. 

Steps to select milestones in project schedule:

• First tool:
  1. Add the "Milestone" column.
  2. Click the column menu and select the"Yes" value.
• Second tool:
  1. Click the "View" item of the top menu.
  2. Click the "Filter:" field in the "Data" block.
  3. Select the "Milestone" filter.

Steps to highlight milestones in project schedule:

1. Click the "View" item of the top menu.
2. Click the "Highlight:" field in the "Data" block.
3. Select the "Milestone" filter.

Steps to set milestones on the summary tasks in project schedule:

1. Double click the milestone.
2. Click the "General" tub.
3. Click the "Rollup" box.
4. Click the "Ok" button.

Adding milestones in project schedule in MS Project Pro

First tool. Steps to add the milestone in project schedule in MS Project Pro:

1. Click the "Task" item of the top menu.
2. Click the "Milestone" button in the "Insert" block.
3. Enter the milestone name in the "Task Name" field.

Second tool. Steps to add the milestone in project schedule in MS Project Pro:

1. Insert the task by clicking the "Insert" keyboard button.
2. Enter zero duration in the "Duration" field.

You can set a task as a milestone. This milestone must have work and resources assigned.

First tool. Steps to add a task as a milestone in project schedule in MS Project Pro:

1. Add the "Milestone" column.
2. Set to "Yes" for the task.

Second tool. Steps to add a task as a milestone in project schedule in MS Project Pro:

1. Position the cursor on a task.
2. Click the "Information" button in the "Properties" block.
3. Click the "Advanced" tub. 
4. Click the "Mark task as milestone" box.

Customize the style of strategic milestones on the gantt chart in MS Project Pro

You can highlight strategic milestones on a Gantt chart in your schedule.

Steps customize the style of strategic milestones on the gantt chart in MS Project Pro:

1. Open the gantt chart.
2. Click the "Gantt Chart Format" item of the top menu.
3. Click the "Format" button in the "Bar Styles" block.
4. Click the "Bar Styles" subitem.
5. Scroll to the bottom of the list
6. Enter the "Strategic milestone" in the "Name" field.
7. Set the strategic milestone style in the "Appearance" field.
8. Copy the list of column form the milestone style in the "Show For ... Tasks" filed.
9. Add the "Strategic" column in the "Show For ... Tasks" filed.   
10. Set the "Task Finish" in the "From" column.
11. Set the "Task Finish" in the "To" column.
12. Click the "Ok" button.