Thanks for the link but the timeline we're using is just the flavor I'm looking for.

1. Your current attachment is precisely what I was trying to do. White (or no color) background with black text as was my original template I had uploaded. For whatever reason the template you had attached to your initial reply was all black with white text.

2. These are the table headers below the chart of the chart you had initially sent and the currently attached (which I suspect is the same one with the fill and dates adjusted):
Date Milestone Assigned To Position

My earlier version only had the following columns:
Date Milestone Position

I had cleared contents of the assigned to column (as indicated on your attached timeline). Therefore, there's an added blank line above or below the milestone names since the chart is still reading the now cleared data column cells (since I hadn't deleted the column for obvious reasons and didn't know how to have the chart not include the column).

3. I'm on my laptop at the gym. I just printed my original timeline to pdf. There's no break. The entire chart is on 1 page as if it fits--which it doesn't--weird. Not an issue since I'll use your newer timeline version.

4. We're using the same Excel version. I'm using Office 365 which I presume is 16. When I get home I'll play around with your formatting suggestions and likely be back.

Mark