Welcome back to our course on Project 2016.
In this section I’d like to take a quick look at the Status Bar.
Now I’m going to deal with it in two parts, the left part and the right part.
But importantly if you right click anywhere on the Status Bar you will see a list of potential
contents.
And whatever’s ticked is currently shown.
Note the header there, Customize Status Bar.
Now you might be surprised to see quite so many ticks but actually not very much information
on the Status Bar at all.
And the reason for this is that apart from the bottom two entries, View Shortcuts and
Zoom Slider which are the things that are shown at the right hand end of the Status
Bar, the things on the left correspond to optional pieces of information you can show
but which very often don’t show anything at all.
So for example, if you look at the item fourth down the list there, Filter, it’s ticked.
And what that means is that if a filter is being applied to the current view show the
name of the filter there.
Now in this case no filter is being applied and therefore you don’t see anything.
So with quite a few of these items even though they’re ticked most of the time you won’t
see anything unless you’re using that particular feature.
Now there are a couple of things shown at the left hand end.
One of them is Ready which is the Cell Mode.
If I click Cell Mode so that that’s not shown you’ll see the effect.
It no longer says Ready because I’m not showing the Cell Mode.
The other thing that’s shown is whether new tasks are manually scheduled or auto-scheduled.
If I tick that it will no longer show that currently they’re manually scheduled by
default.
Now the other items although they’re ticked there’s nothing to see.
One of them that isn’t ticked is this one which is the Macro Recording indicator.
We’re currently not recording a macro.
That’s a sequence of steps that we can replay automatically.
If I check that you’ll see the little icon that indicates that we’re not recording.
If I started recording a macro and left this checked then you would see a different icon
whilst we were recording.
And in fact that icon would give you a way of stopping the recording.
We’re not going to be covering macro recording anytime soon so let’s check that off.
And let’s concentrate on the right hand end of the Status Bar.
Now the bottom two options there, View Shortcuts.
The first one corresponds to this set of buttons that I can use to enable different views of
my project.
So let me just click away there.
I currently have Gantt Chart View.
But if I go to this one, this is Task Usage View.
And if I go to this one it’s Team Planner View and so on.
I’ll be covering all of these later on in the course.
And the fact that that second to bottom option is ticked means that those buttons are there
to enable me to easily switch between those views.
As an alternative to those I can select the view I want from the View Tab on the Ribbon.
And in fact there are many more options on the View Tab on the Ribbon.
The very bottom option, Zoom Slider, gives me access to this control that I can use to
zoom in and out of the current view.
And this basically zooms by time.
So as I zoom out I get a broader view of time.
So now you can see in that view that I’m looking at quarters.
If I zoom in by clicking on the plus button there I’m down to months, then weeks, then
eventually I get down to individual days.
Now again I can either use that.
It’s quite a course control but I can use that.
Or on the View Tab on the Ribbon there is a Zoom Group that lets me be much more accurate
and much more flexible about how much I’m zoomed in on the current view.
So that’s it.
That’s the Status Bar.
Please join me in
the next section.