Add text and pictures

Milestones Professional offers many options for adding text and graphics to your schedules. See Tutorial Lesson 3 - Work with Text

What you want:	Use this:
name or explain a step (task) in the schedule	column text
a title at the top or bottom of the schedule	title
a short explanation for a key milestone or task	symbol text
a longer explanation for a key milestone or task	symbol note
text which is not related to a milestone or a task	freeform text
text which explains what each symbol or bar on the schedule means	legend
a picture or clip art	picture
a picture at a specific date	symbol note or bitmap symbol
the page number	page number
a combination of toolbox rows, pictures, shapes and text	groups

Column text

Up to 20 columns, up to 10 on each side of the schedule.
Columns can be "smart" or text only. Set a column type to none if it will be used for task names or any other text entries.
Column text can be rotated. Borders can be adjusted as shown above.
See Outlining and Summary Bars to learn about creating an outlined schedule.

The schedule title can contain up to 3 lines of text and can be formatted extensively.

To get started, click above the schedule with the mouse. The toolbar changes to Current Object: Title:

	Add a title	Enter up to 3 lines of title. Click the Press here to apply changes made above button.
	Justify the title and choose highlights.	Choose one of the justification icons to left, center, or right justify the title.
	Change the schedule font	Select a text color, size and font.
	Add a background color
	Set the border type, line type, color and shadow.	Choose Border Type: None, Width of Title, or Width of Schedule Shadow: None, Small, Medium, or Large. Click on the color box to change the color of the shadow.
	Insert extra space under the title	The title can be flush up against the schedule or a small gap can be added. Insert extra space under title: Or leave this option un-checked:

Enter up to ten thousand characters of text in each symbol's Symbol Notes field.
Hover over symbol to read symbol notes or choose to display formatted notes right on the schedule.
Option to print separate sheet of Symbol Notes.
Choose to highlight and auto-number symbols with Notes.
Sampler below shows many symbol notes features: Learn more.

Type text anywhere on the schedule.
Free-form text does not move with a symbol or with a task line.
Format the text, background, frame, and more.
Up to 40 lines of text. Press enter to start a new line of text.
Use & substitutable text strings to show file name (see example below), date, time, and more.
Learn more about freeform text.

The legend is the area reserved for documenting the usages of various symbols, horizontal bars and vertical links on the schedule

While legends usually appear below the schedule, they can also "float" anywhere on the schedule.
Legends can display one or two lines of text along with one or two symbols and one (or no) bar.
An alternate legend can be created using Groups.
Learn more about the legend.