![]() The trick is to review the list of text styles available in the Text Styles Dialog Box: Here we can see that the milestones are clearly flagged as critical – yet they’re not showing up with the red highlighting. Check out the following screenshot of a simple path with the Critical field displayed: From a Microsoft Project standpoint, milestones definitely can be critical. Huh? Some might say that milestones shouldn’t be critical, which is perhaps a religious argument I hope to avoid for now. ![]() Unfortunately, that doesn’t work for milestones. Sounds easy enough, right? Other planning software packages can achieve this with no sweat, right? In Microsoft Project, you simply go to Format > Text Styles, select Critical Tasks in the drop down and enable a red background: to make the background of the cells turn red. The challenge has been that one of my users wants to flag all critical tasks in a schedule by using conditional highlighting, i.e. This is a question which has come up a couple of times both at work and in the newsgroups over the past couple of weeks. I originally wrote it for Microsoft Project 2007, but it should be just as applicable to the 2010 version. I was looking through my LiveWriter queue this week, and realized that I had a couple of posts left over from the last several months that I never posted.
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