I want to use Project for something that it was not intended for but should still work for. I want to create three custom bar styles: Shipping, Qualifying, Investigation. I want to define the span of all three bars with a start date and an end date. I want the colors to be different and need to have the ability to add text inside, etc.

I have been do this same thing thus far with a start date task of 0 days and an ending task of 0 days and then rolling this up to a summary task. The length of the summary automatically scales with my two dates and I can change the colors to meet my needs.

But for this application I'd like to create a custom template that has only these three types of task bars.

Is this even possible?

Thanks.