Customizing the Gantt Chart Timeline Colors

You can easily customize the Gantt Chart with a few clicks of the mouse. We have six themes in the Display tab that you can choose from…

  1. Blue
  2. Classic
  3. Excel
  4. Dark
  5. Custom

If you’d like to create your own theme with your custom colors then select the Custom theme. You will then be able to select each color to change it to the one you want.

Gantt Settings

The Gantt Excel timeline colors include Gantt bars and other colored shapes representing…

  1. Estimated Bar – Estimated bar drawn between the Start and Finish Dates
  2. Milestone – Milestone Icon
  3. % Complete Bar – Task Percentage overlay bar
  4. Project Row – Project Row background-color
  5. Header Row – Header Row background-color
  6. High Priority – Task Priority color for High Priority
  7. Normal Priority – Task Priority color for Normal Priority
  8. Low Priority – Task Priority color for Low Priority
  9. Completed Tasks – Task Status color highlighted in the first column
  10. In Progress Tasks – Task Status color highlighted in the first column
  11. Planned Tasks – Task Status color highlighted in the first column
  12. Calendar Row 1-1 – Background-color for 1st Calendar Row
  13. Calendar Row 1-2 – Alternate Background-color for 1st Calendar Row
  14. Calendar Row 2 – Background color for 2nd Calendar Row
  15. Calendar Row 3 – Background color for 3rd Calendar Row
  16. Task Borders – Task Border color
  17. Show Baseline Bar – Baseline bar drawn between Baseline Dates
  18. Show Actual Bar – Actual bar drawn between Actual Dates
  19. Show Overdue Bar – Overdue bar for tasks ending before Today and % complete < 100%
  20. Show Connectors – Dependency arrows
  21. Show Today Indicator – The Today Line indicating Today’s date
  22. Show Timeline Grid – Vertical gridlines in the Timeline
  23. Show Holidays – Holiday indicators in the Calendar Headers
  24. Show Non-Working Days – Non-working day indicators in the Calendar Headers
  25. Show Holidays Per Resource – Holiday indicators for the task row if a resource is assigned
  26. Show Non-working Days Per Resource – Non-working day indicators for the task row if a resource is assigned
  27. Show Text on Gantt Bars – Show text from any column in the Gantt Chart

Note: Drawing Text on Gantt Bars is a resource-intensive job when you have hundreds of tasks. We recommend that you turn it off when working on the Gantt Chart and turning it back on when presenting the Gantt Chart

Changing Colors of Individual Bars and Milestones

You can also change the color of each individual bar or milestone marker

  1. To do this, just double-click the task or milestone. Change the colors under the Bar Colors section and then hit the Ok button.
Task Details Window