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Curtains

Curtains offer a way to shade any date range on a schedule. Curtains might be used to shade a critical project time span, a holiday season, every other month, or any other time period.

Each curtain appears for a set date range or repeat for a designated period, at specified intervals. Your schedule can have as many curtains as you need.

To create a new curtain:

Choose Format | Curtains.
In the Curtain Setup dialog box, click the Add button to add a new curtain.
Click Date Range and enter the Start Date and Time (when the curtain should begin) and End Date and Time (when the curtain should end).
Next to Pattern Color, choose Change to select a color for the Curtain Fill Pattern.
Next to Background Color, choose Change to select a color for the background of the Curtain Fill Pattern.
Under Curtain Fill Pattern, choose from the drop-down list of patterns.

To create a new curtain which repeats:

On the Format tab, choose Curtains (Shade by Date Range).

In the Curtain Setup dialog box, click the Add button to add a new curtain.

Click Date Range and enter the Start Date and Time (when the curtain should begin) and End Date and Time (when the curtain should end).

To repeat a curtain, click Repeat a Curtain of. By default, this selection uses the start and end dates for the project. To use the time period as entered in step 3, click Use above date range as start/stop for this curtain.

For Repeat a Curtain of settings, enter a number of times to repeat, a time period, and a pattern of repetition as Every.

EXAMPLE 1:

For example, set the curtain to appear between 1/1/2004 and 6/30/2004 (as set by the schedule details), for a 1 month duration, appearing every 2 months.

Next to Pattern Color, choose Change to select a color for the Curtain Fill Pattern.

Next to Background Color, choose Change to select a color for the background of the Curtain Fill Pattern.

Under Curtain Fill Pattern, choose from the drop-down list of patterns.

With the sample choices as shown above, the schedule will look as follows:

EXAMPLE 2:

Notes:

If the first pattern is selected in the Curtain Fill Pattern drop-down list, optionally choose a Special Effects fade setting. The pattern color will fade to white, unless Fade to Background Color is checked, in which case the Pattern Color fades to the Background Color.
To display the curtains over horizontal gridlines, check Show Curtains over Horizontal Gridlines.
Marbled curtains are full-colored bitmaps which will ignore any foreground or background color settings. Use of these curtains increases the size of printer files and metafiles, especially on high-resolution printers. Thus, printing time may be increased.