Tips & Tricks for January 2024

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Show hidden columns when all are hidden

I hid the only column on my schedule.  Now my schedule has no columns.  How do I add a column on the left?

Is there any way to move milestones in front or behind when they are stacked on top of each other with overlapping dates? I don’t want to use vertical symbol position and move to another level.

I have a schedule with several joined bars.  P3 is supposed to be filled blue but stays white.  Then, after I refresh, the bar for P2 disappears and P3 fills as expected:

     

Some of my symbols have a background and a box surrounding the symbol text.  I would like to get rid of this.

My bars are all the same color before status, but they have a different after status color, how do I tell them apart in the toolbox?

I am trying to bring tasks into my Milestones schedule from Project server.  I'm not getting any errors, but nothing is coming in

Can anyone advise how I may remove shading under a bar and legend entry?

I'm using Symbol Links to an MS Project file. Is there a way to get a list in Milestones Pro of all the UIDs I am linked to?  

I need to have numbers inside my triangle symbols.  Right now I am using symbol text and the text is pretty small and hard to re-size when the symbol sizes change.  Is there an easier way to do this?

I have Type 1 ValueSet values entered for each month of the year. I need to shift all symbols and values one year. How can I do that? What about shifting curtains?

I want to show that my task doesn't have an ending date.  It should have an arrow on the right to show that it continues into the future

Is there a way to quickly see the Unique IDs on each symbol while I'm working on a Milestones chart?