Improve presentation of the project
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.. index:: Improve presentation of the project

In order to improve the project readability, do as follows:

- Show / hide all subprojects
- Number all activities and subprojects
- Change order in the Gantt charts
- Create subprojects
- Add user view

**Show / hide detail**

In order to unfold all subprojects, select the menu item **Start > Outline > Show/Hide detail**.

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**Number all activities and subprojects**

To each activity is automatically assigned a number during the activities creation
After their linking or the schedule correction, the
numbers may not correspond to the correct time series.

In order to rearrange the numbers of activities - no matter whether it
is a unique number or WBS code - , select the menu item **Project /
Numbering**. The activities will then be numbered automatically and unbrokenly.

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**Change order in the Gantt charts**

In order to automatically change the order of all activities and
subprojects, select the menu item **Gantt chart format > Data > Sort** an

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select one of the following menu items or icon buttons:

- by links
- by start time
- by code
- by name

**Note**: Different views can have different menu items.

**Manually change**

In order to change automatically the order of a single marked activity
or subproject

1. select the menu item **Start > Edit >...** an.

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2. select one of the following menu items or icon buttons:

- up
- down

**Adjust timescale**

To display the project's time, you can choose between minutes
and quarters.

To adjust the timescale, you can select one of two options:

- Click the slide bar with the left mouse button on the right pane of the status bar and move the slider to the preferred time-zoom setting.

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- Click on the actual time display e.g. DAYS 1:1 with the left mouse button on the right pane of the status bar. Then select other preferred representation from the list.

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