Building Your Chart
The Gantt chart we're building today will be used to manage the planning, design and construction phases of a new car model for the CarCo Motors Company. Let's begin by adding a title above the chart.
To add a title, click Text in the Tools group of the Home Tab at the top of the screen, click on an open section of the Work Area, where you would like to place the title, and begin typing.
The title of our Gantt chart is "CarCo Motors: New Car Design."
After you type the title, click anywhere else on the Work Area to turn the text into a text object, which can then be moved by clicking and dragging it.
The title of our Gantt chart is "CarCo Motors: New Car Design."
You can Double-click the text to reopen it for further editing, or use the Text control in the Tools group. If desired, you can customize the text using the Font group of the Home Tab.
The Font group has menus and a dialog launcher for customizing font type, size, style and color, which function in the same way as in other popular programs such as Microsoft® Word®.
Click Start Date in the Set Time Frame group of SmartPanel to open the Set Start Date dialog.
For this example, select the month April (the first month of the second quarter), and the year 2009, and click OK.
The Gantt chart will now display the appropriate months for the second quarter, in 2009.
