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How to adjust Row Height when Printing in Microsoft Project 2013?

Anonymous
2014-10-21T01:51:00+00:00

I've gone through page setup, scaling, adjusting in the Gantt Chart, etc.  I have followed and tried almost every option to make this print with each line having no space below it.  We submit this stuff to the govt. and it needs to look professional.  The spaces when printed on A3 cause the details to be too small.  

I want it to look like this (as far as the task names go)  (Gantt Chart View)

But it ends up looking like this When I print it  (Print Preview)

If you could please tell me what I need to change to get the second to look more like the first, I would appreciate it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-28T23:56:43+00:00

    Trevor san,

    Just so I don't leave you hanging, my systems section found a solution.  They tinkered with it all day and found that under gantt chart, reset to defaults works.  It keeps all your data, but it resets some of your text formatting, etc. I believe.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-30T20:24:37+00:00

    Not a fix, but I've found if you change the font on the Task names - then change them back - it so far works everytime.  (I haven't figured out what causes it but it happens to me a lot)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-10-29T00:28:46+00:00

    Orion,

    This is a very common routine situation and I am surprised it took your guys so long to find it, but I suppose I should have mentioned it too.

    Here is my take.

    People often change the format of the text and/or bars in the Gantt Chart View. All of the formatting, including text, bars and everything in page setup are associated with the current active view. If you change any of it you are essentially changing the design of the view "on the fly". It is impossible not to change the design of the Gantt Chart View to some extent, but if you take it too far you can end up with a very ugly and un-functional Gantt Chart View, and of course you no longer have the well designed and functional original.

    My usual advice is to leave the original largely as it is. If you have preferences which are a big departure from the original, make a new view by copying one which is close to what you want, and modify the copy.

    So, I would go to More Views, select the Gantt Chart View and copy it. Give the copy a distinctive name such as "AA My New View 01" and modify that to your heart's content. If you have already messed up the original you can recover a clean original from the global template using the organizer.

    This housekeeping advice also applies to tables, filters, groups, reports, calendars and everything else that you see in the tabs in the organizer.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-21T05:49:57+00:00

    I am assuming it looks like the first sample when you see it on the screen.

    Without being able to see the whole thing, I suspect that you have the scaling way out by perhaps using "Fit to pages wide by pages tall" in Page Setup.

    Try starting with 100%, and when squeezing it onto pages, don't squeeze too hard.

    BTW, task 5 is manually scheduled.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-02-02T19:52:09+00:00

    I finally figured out why it was doing this.  If you have even 1 line of any Description Name that wraps text due to the column not being wide enough, it makes every row twice the row height in the print preview and printouts, not just that one row that needed it, as it is shown in the standard on-screen view.  Widen your column or shorten your description, let the row height shrink back down, and you are good to go.  The other response I read on this thread about going to Gantt Chart View and resetting everything to defaults works too, but then you have to reformat everything.  Doable, just takes time.  TW

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