Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Key Points

• A timeline is a graphic that represents a specific period of time and the events that occur during that time. Timelines are particularly good at showing an overview of a project—project status, a history of events, and what's to come. Use the Timeline template in the Project Schedule category to create timelines.

• Use expanded timelines to show a segment of the primary timeline in more detail.

• With Gantt charts, you can track the details of each project task, create task dependencies, see how changes to one task affect another, and quickly identify task owners and status. Use the Gantt Chart template in the Project Schedule category to create timelines.

• You can create timelines from scratch or from existing data. To import data to create ...