When I add text 'inside' the task bar, it is left justified. Can it be center justified? Project Professional 2010.

No, not to the best of my knowledge.

Hi,

as Julie said it's not possible in standard, but you can workaround using a custom field as I just posted here for you:

http://community.allocatus.com/blogs...arstellen.aspx

Best,
Renke

Thank you Renke!

This appears to be a great solution. My German is not good so I can't read what is on the link.

I muddled my way around and discovered how to add a custom field and am trying to understand what to do based on the pictures and not the German. I have copiedthe formula and am getting a syntax error, the semi-colon just before the first [Start]. If I change the semi colon to a comma, the syntax error moves to the next semi-colon.

IIf(2,6*DateDiff("d";[Start];[Finish])+1-(len([Name]))>0;space(2,6*DateDiff("d";[Start];[Finish])+1-(len([Name]))) & [Name];[Name])

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.

Try replacing the ; with a comma.

Thanks Julie. The compiler now stopped at the ampersand (&). I tried replacing this with AND and it still didn't like it.

Any other ideas?

Hi,

I'm getting regular errors as well, but haven't had time yet to try to sort it out. I'll let you know when I have a chance to crack it.

I am getting closer with:
IIf(DateDiff("d",[Start],[Finish])+1-len([Name])>0,Space(3*DateDiff("d",[Start],[Finish])+1-len([Name])) & [Name],[Name])

I am beginning to understand this code a bit better. The issue I see is the 3x multiplier is dependent on the timescale you're using. SPACE returns a number that is used to create a blank section prior to writing the NAME. The blank space is a number of spaces as returned by the SPACE function. But the length of the space is probably not the same length as a 'day' represents on the gantt chart again depending on the time scale being used. In my case, where my time scale is very compressed I had to actually divide the number of spaces returned to get the text to fit on the bar.

I would hope there is a way to account for the time scale.

Custom formulas cannot react to user settings such as zooming in or out of the timescale. The only method I can imagine is to set the indentation within the task bar through VBA code - and I am not the person to help out with that, sorry.