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Editing Text Columns and Swimlane Labels for Version 7.0 (P70-12_3_1-70-07232020)

Overview

1) When text column cells and swimlane level cells appear in the chart their contents are determined by data imported from your Microsoft Project or Microsoft Excel source plan.

2) It may be necessary on occasion to edit the contents of these cells to support your schedule presentation goals and objectives.

3) It is not necessary to go back to your source plan and change the data and re-import that data to change text column cell labels or swimlane level cell labels; changes can be made to individual or a set of selected cells in the Chart Editor.

4) Within the Chart Editor, you can use the text column right-click context menu’s Edit text and Properties … commands or the swimlane level right-click context menu’s Edit swimlane label and Properties … commands to edit labels as well as other label properties.

5) For more information on using the text column cell label or swimlane level cell label properties, please see the articles at:

6) In addition to editing text column cell labels and swimlane level cell labels using the right-click context menu commands, you can edit Font properties and Alignment settings of text column cell labels and swimlane level cell labels using controls on the OnePager Home ribbon tool bar tab’s Font and Alignment control groups.

7) Since being able to edit text column and swimlane level cells requires first selecting the cells to edit, it may be beneficial to review the sections on selection methods for text column cells and swimlane level cells at: Selection Methods Available for Multiple Text Columns 12.0.2-70 and Selection Methods Available for Multiple Swimlane Levels 12.0.2-70.

8) Whenever you make a change to a text column cell or swimlane level cell, the edited cell becomes a maverick.

Editing Text Column Cell Labels

Editing Individual Text Column Cell Labels Using the Edit text Form

1) For the purpose of illustration, we’ll use the OnePager Pro chart below containing three swimlane levels and two text columns:

2) To edit the label of an individual text column cell, right-click the text column cell to access the text column right-click context menu shown below:

3) After accessing the text column right-click context menu, click the Edit text command shown above to access the Enter text form and its Enter text window that contains the current contents of the selected text column cell as shown here:

4) To change the contents of the selected text column cell using the above Enter text form, type in the desired text into the Enter text window and click the OK button when finished.

5) After clicking OK button on the Enter text form, the selected text column cell remains selected and the text in the cell is changed as shown below:

Editing Multiple Text Column Cell Labels Using the Edit text Form

6) Editing the text column cell labels of multiple text column cells is similar to editing an individual text column cell’s label except that more cells are selected and the change made in the Edit text form’s window is applied to all selected cells.

7) If we select a sequence of text column cells using the SHIFT+Left-Click method to select the cells, right-click in one of the selected cells to access the text column right-click context menu, and then click the Edit text command, the chart looks like this:

8) Changing the text in the Edit text window to “Started” and clicking the OK button on the form, changes the text in the selected text column cells as shown below:

9) The same results as shown above can be achieved when individual text column cells are selected to become a set of multiple text column cells using the CTL+Left-Click selection method.

Editing Swimlane Level Cell Labels

1) In the illustrations above for editing text column cell labels, you are able to select individual text column or multiple text column cells and use the Edit text form to change the selected cell’s labels.

2) The same process can be used for changing the labels on individual swimlane level cells or multiple swimlane level cells depending on the selection method you use.

3) The examples that follow illustrate how you can change individual and multiple swimlane level label cells in the chart.

Editing Individual Swimlane Level Cell Labels Using the Edit text Form

4) For the purpose of illustration, we’ll use the same OnePager Pro chart below containing three swimlane levels and two text columns:

5) To edit the label of an individual swimlane level cell, right-click the swimlane level cell to access the swimlane level right-click context menu shown below:

6) After accessing the swimlane level right-click context menu, click the Edit swimlane label command shown above to access the Enter text form and its Enter text window that contains the current contents of the selected swimlane level cell as shown here:

7) To change the contents of the selected swimlane level cell using the above Enter text form, type in the desired text into the Enter text window and click the OK button when finished.

8) After clicking OK on the Enter text form, the selected swimlane level cell remains selected and the text in the cell is changed as shown below:

Editing Multiple Swimlane Level Cell Labels Using the Edit text Form

9) Editing the swimlane level cell labels of multiple swimlane level cells is similar to editing an individual swimlane level cell’s label except that more cells are selected and the change made in the Edit text form is applied to all selected cells.

10) If we select a sequence of swimlane level cells using the SHIFT+Left-Click method to select the cells, right-click in one of the selected cells to access the swimlane level right-click context menu, and then click the Edit swimlane label command, the chart looks like this:

11) Changing the contents of the Edit text window to “Planning/Development Team” and clicking the OK button on the form, changes the text in the selected swimlane level cells as shown below:

12) The same results as shown above can be achieved when individual swimlane level cell labels are selected to become a set of multiple swimlane level cells using the CTL+Left-Click selection method.

Editing Text Column Cell and Swimlane Level Cell Labels Using the Home Ribbon Tool Bar’s Controls

1) When either single or multiple text column cell labels or swimlane level cell labels are selected they can be edited in terms of their Font properties and text Alignment using the Font and Alignment control groups on the OnePager Home ribbon tool bar tab as shown below:

2) Whenever you select a single or multiple text column cell or swimlane level cell, the two control groups above are enabled and you can use any of the controls shown above to edit the text in the selected cell or cells.

Editing Font Properties of Text Column Cell Labels or Swimlane Level Cell Labels

3) Using the edited multiple swimlane level cell labels from the previous sub-section above as an example, we can decrease the font size of the selected labels as shown below:

4) Once the desired text column cell labels or swimlane level cell labels are selected, you can use the Font control group’s buttons to edit the label text to Bold, Italics, or Underline; increase or decrease the font size; or access the standard Color Chooser form and change the color of the label itself.

5) When there are multiple text column cell labels and/or swimlane level cell labels selected, the edit is applied to all selected labels.

6) Additionally, you can change the font type and its size by using the dropdown windows appearing above the six buttons in the control group.

7) All these font properties are available in the Font properties form accesses by selecting a task bar/milestone symbol label, time axis cell label, or text within comment boxes as just a few examples.

8) Any edits made to cell labels using the Home ribbon tool bar tab’s controls are applied to all selected cell labels.

9) The methodology described above applies as well to editing the Font properties of text column cell labels.

Editing Alignment Properties of Text Column Cell Labels or Swimlane Level Cell Labels

10) As mentioned, when a text column cell label or swimlane level cell label is selected, the Alignment control group on the Home ribbon tool bar tab is enabled so you can change the position of the label text within the selected cell.

11) If we continue with the example from the previous sub-section, we can change the position of all the selected labels to vertically centered and horizontally centered in their respective cells by clicking the two center buttons in each row of the Alignment control group as shown here:

12) All the swimlane level cell labels selected in the chart above are repositioned so that their labels are positioned in the center vertically and horizontally within the cell.

Related Links

Manual Editing Task/Milestone Shapes and Text Labels (Portal) 9.0.1-70

Creating and Editing Rows and Swimlanes (Portal) 12.0.1-70

About OnePager's Rows and Swimlanes 12.0.2-70

Collecting, Formatting, and Sorting Task/Milestones into Rows 12.01.1-70

Creating, Formatting, and Sorting Swimlanes Levels 12.02.1-70

Creating and Formatting Text Columns 12.03.1-70

Row and Swimlane Borders 12.04.1-70

Editing Text Columns or Swimlane Labels 12.3.1-70

Resizing the Width of Text Columns and Swimlanes 12.8.1-70

Resizing the Height of Rows 12.11.1-70

Editing Row Properties 12.22.1-70

Editing Swimlane Properties 12.23.1-70

Zebra Striping for Rows and Swimlanes for OnePager Pro 12.24.1-70

Zebra Striping for Rows and Swimlanes for OnePager Express 12.24.2-70

Editing with the Chart Properties form (Portal) 21.0.1-70

Managing Templates (Portal) 24.0.1-70

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