Difference between revisions of "Resizing Text Columns or Swimlane Labels for Version 6.0"

Latest revision as of 17:01, 11 May 2017

Resizing Additional Text Columns and Swimlane Labels

If you need more space for the text in your additional text columns or swimlane labels, you can resize them.

1) Hover your mouse over the vertical edge of the additional text column or swimlane label and left click to drag it to the left or right:

2) As you resize the label width, the size of your overall OnePager document will be adjusted accordingly.

3) Note There may be an impact on the output formatting for multi-page project views.

Resizing with Multiple Additional Text Columns

4) When you have multiple additional text columns showing in the project view, you can resize them individually by using the procedure specified above.

a) The right border of the additional text column is used to resize the width of the additional text column to its immediate left.

b) Grabbing the additional text column's vertical right border and dragging the mouse to the left or right will resize only that additional text column.

c) Any additional text columns to the right of the one being resized will simply be moved intact to the right to accommodate the resized additional text column.

5) The following shows how additional text columns, for example, can be widened to accommodate the text.

a) Here is a project view where the additional text column called Finish has insufficient width to display all the dates correctly:

b) By using the mouse left click on the right most border of the Finish additional text column and moving to the right we can widen the it to make room for the entire date as shown below:

Automatic Resizing of Swimlanes Labels and Additional Text Columns

6) You can automatically resize the width of a swimlane label or additional text column by positioning the cursor on the right border of the swimlane label or additional text column and performing a double left-click when the double arrow cursor symbol appears.

7) Suppose we have the project view shown below where the swimlane label text and additional text column text are wrapped and you want to resize these columns so that the text fits without changing the text font:

Automatically Resize Swimlane Label

8) To automatically resize the swimlane label, place the cursor on the right border of the swimlane as shown below and double left-click when the double arrow cursor symbol is displayed:

Automatically Resize An Additional Text Column

9) In a similar way, you can resize any additional text columns by placing the cursor on its right border as shown below and double left-click when the double arrow cursor symbol is displayed:

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