All you need to know about date headings

Date headings .... they appear above the schedule area and there are quite a few to choose from.  End of story.  Right?  Not necessarily!  Learn how to master the date headings and you have mastered a key component of your Milestones schedule.  Read on.

The straight story, in a nutshell - with references:

Date Heading choices:

Date Headings appear above the schedule area (and other facts) :

Headings can be above the schedule, below, or both.  Headings can also be attached to any task row. Choose from over 40 standard date heading styles,  ranging from years (even centuries) to minutes. Compress future or past dates using logarithmic view. Milestones Professional offers custom headings which extend date heading flexibility. Use "Curtains" to extend the date headings into the schedule area and highlight a holiday shutdown or critical schedule period. Show a day or month at a time and "scroll" horizontally through your schedule. Easily change the font size, style, color and shading of each heading level.

Set the start and end dates for the schedule:

Set up the Date Headings:

Choose from over 40 standard date heading styles, ranging from years to minutes. 

N umbered and lettered days of the week

Calendar years, quarters, months and weeks

Fiscal years, quarters, months and weeks

Month names with colored curtains in the date heading

Logarithmic time scale:

Up to 4 levels of headings per schedule.

Not enough choices?  Try a custom heading:

Headings can be above the schedule, below the schedule (or both):

1. Click directly on the headings.

2. The Toolbar will change to the Selection tab with Current Object: Date Heading

3. In the Date Headings section check Show at top and/or Show at bottom.

Options for date headings:

Attach a date heading to a task row:

1. Right click a task row (preferably a blank row).

2. Choose Attach Date Heading.

3. Make selections in the dialog box (heading does not need to be the same as the date headings which appear above and/or below the schedule.

Change the appearance of the Date Headings:

Color and add special effects to the Date Headings:

Change the font style/size and /or color:

1. Click directly on the headings.

2. The Toolbar will change to the Selection tab with Current Object: Date Heading. All options for headings are now available.

3. In the Date Headings section choose the font color, Font type, Font Size for each heading.

Scroll through your schedule by time period:

1. Click the Dates tab.

2. In the Date Range Tools section, choose Shift displayed range backward.**

3. In the Date Range Tools section choose Shift displayed range forward.**

** Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown can be used instead

1. Click the Dates tab.

2. In the Start and End Dates section click the Full Dialog icon

3. Click the Yearly/Monthly tab.

4. Under Calendar Range Scrolling, enter a value for Working days to scroll with Shift+PageUp/PageDn.

5. Enter a number of days.