Gantt Chart Styles: Macro level formatting adjustments

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This is formatting trick #4 of this Office Timeline Gantt chart and timeline formatting series. How to quickly change the macro level formatting of your graphic in just a few clicks of your mouse.
And similar to SmartArt in PowerPoint, where you can flip and change the style of your graphics on the fly, you can do the same thing with the Office Timeline add-in as all of the information is already locked in the graphic.

That said…

You do need to be careful of the timing on this as changing the macro level formatting styles (which is super easy to do with the add-in) has a tendency to wipe the manual formatting adjustments you made to the graphic.

This means that if you spend a lot of time manually formatting your graphic in PowerPoint and then decide that you want a different look or feel for your Gantt chart or timeline, changing the macro level formatting style as shown in the video will likely wipe out most of your manual work.

As no one likes to lose their work, this is why it’s always best to start with the macro level formatting for your Gantt chart or timeline first, before you invest a bunch of time manually updating and tweaking the individual elements of your graphic.

That said, having the functionality to quickly flip formatting styles is a great feature of the add-in, as you can quickly spruce up your old layouts with a new look and feel.

The office timeline add-in epitomizes the golden rule of Speed Training, which is:

Never do anything manually in PowerPoint that PowerPoint can do for you.

And because the add-in does such a great job on the backend - which is where most people mess up their slides - we are giving the office timeline+ add-in our official speed training stamp of approval.

I can’t think of a faster way to build, edit and manage your Gantt chart or timeline in PowerPoint.

This series includes 6 of my favorite formatting tricks for the Office Timeline add-in. You can watch the full series or skip around if you like. See links to the other videos below.

Office Timeline YouTube Video Tricks:
Trick #1: Splitting and formatting your Gantt chart dates    • Gantt Chart Dates: Splitting and Form...  
Trick #2: Changing your graphic’s shapes and positions    • Gantt Chart Objects: Changing Shapes ...  
Trick #3: Adding and removing vertical and horizontal task lines    • Gantt Chart Task Lines: Adding and Re...  
Trick #4: Applying macro level formatting    • Gantt Chart Styles: Macro level forma...  
Trick #5: Turning your graphic into a PowerPoint table    • Gantt Chart Table: Export Your Graphi...  
Trick #6: Automatically changing the time units of your graphic    • Gantt Chart Timing: Flip Your Time Un...