how can I change the color of the constraint lines between tasks?

[Don B.]

I want the constraint line to display on the gantt chart, but I don't want
them to "dominate" the presentation. I would like to recolor them to "grey"
or "silver" so they're present, but not overpowering.

[Steve House]

I assume you're referring to the precedent link arrows between tasks. The
arrow inherits the colour of the predecessor task so AFAIK there's no way to
have a different colour for it. You can turn them off using the Gannt chart
layout command but that's about all you can do. On the bright side they do
represent pretty important information about the nature of the work the
tasks represent.

[Mike Glen]

Hi Don,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

The link line colour is not individually selectable. It gets its colour
from the task from which it emenates. You could change the colour of all
the bars in Format/Bar Styles... but that will affect the bar as well. If
you can live with grey tasks bars, you could change the start and end shapes
back to the conventional colours.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials

Post by Don B.
I want the constraint line to display on the gantt chart, but I don't
want them to "dominate" the presentation. I would like to recolor
them to "grey" or "silver" so they're present, but not overpowering.

[Jack Dahlgren]

It is pretty easy once you know the secret.
The bars take the color from the first barstyle in the format/barstyles
dialog box.

To make them grey:

1) Go to format menu
2) Select Barstyles
3) Insert a new style at the top of the list
4) Copy the criteria and show for from the second line into the new style
you created
5) Prefix the style name with an asterisk * so that it won't show in the
menu
6) In the bottom of the dialog box select the color you want it to be.

This should do it. The barstyles are drawn in the same order as the list, so
your typical barstyle will completely hide the grey style you have just made
except for the links.

-Jack Dahlgren

Post by Don B.
I want the constraint line to display on the gantt chart, but I don't want
them to "dominate" the presentation. I would like to recolor them to "grey"
or "silver" so they're present, but not overpowering.

[Jack Dahlgren]

Wow, I even wrote an article about doing this with details and screenshots.

http://zo-d.com/blog/archives/ms-project-tips/formatting-task-links-in-ms-project.html

I had completely forgotten.

-Jack

Post by Jack Dahlgren
It is pretty easy once you know the secret.
The bars take the color from the first barstyle in the format/barstyles
dialog box.
1) Go to format menu
2) Select Barstyles
3) Insert a new style at the top of the list
4) Copy the criteria and show for from the second line into the new style
you created
5) Prefix the style name with an asterisk * so that it won't show in the
menu
6) In the bottom of the dialog box select the color you want it to be.
This should do it. The barstyles are drawn in the same order as the list,
so your typical barstyle will completely hide the grey style you have just
made except for the links.
-Jack Dahlgren

Post by Don B.
I want the constraint line to display on the gantt chart, but I don't want
them to "dominate" the presentation. I would like to recolor them to "grey"
or "silver" so they're present, but not overpowering.

[Mike Glen]

Hey, Jack, that's cool! I can't get it to work with the milestones,
however, Don if you can accept that they're coloured the same grey, you've
got a solution.


Mike Glen
Project MVP

Post by Jack Dahlgren
It is pretty easy once you know the secret.
The bars take the color from the first barstyle in the
format/barstyles dialog box.
1) Go to format menu
2) Select Barstyles
3) Insert a new style at the top of the list
4) Copy the criteria and show for from the second line into the new
style you created
5) Prefix the style name with an asterisk * so that it won't show in
the menu
6) In the bottom of the dialog box select the color you want it to be.
This should do it. The barstyles are drawn in the same order as the
list, so your typical barstyle will completely hide the grey style
you have just made except for the links.
-Jack Dahlgren

Post by Don B.
I want the constraint line to display on the gantt chart, but I
don't want them to "dominate" the presentation. I would like to
recolor them to "grey"
or "silver" so they're present, but not overpowering.