Applies To
Project Online Desktop Client Project Professional 2024 Project Professional 2021 Project Standard 2021 Project Professional 2019 Project Standard 2019 Project Professional 2016 Project Standard 2016 Project Professional 2013 Project Standard 2013

You can distinguish vacations and other nonworking days from working days by using colors and patterns.

Keep in mind, though, that this article does not discuss how to set up working and non-working time for your project and resource calendars. Learn more about how to create and manager project and resource calendars for your project.

Note: Although you can format nonworking time, you cannot remove it from the timescale in a view.

Format nonworking time in the Gantt Chart

  1. In the Task or View tab, click Gantt Chart in the View or Task Views section.

  2. In the View tab, click Timescale dropdown in the Zoom section and click Timescale... at the bottom.

  3. Click the Non-working time tab, and then select a color and a pattern to represent nonworking time in the Gantt Chart view.

  4. If you want to change the appearance of the Gantt Chart view to display nonworking time for a particular resource (such as vacation times as well as weekends), in the Calendar list, select the calendar for the resource.

Note: Nonworking time appears in the Gantt Chart view only when it occurs in default increments of the bottom tier of the timescale or greater. For example, if the bottom tier of the timescale is weeks and Saturdays are specified as nonworking time, the nonworking days don't appear.

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