## Create or Modify a View

Although Microsoft Project supplies a number of predefined views that are suitable for each phase of your project, you might find that none of them meets your need at a particular time. Perhaps you want a view that includes a special set of fields or unique formatting. Whatever your reason, you can create a view that satisfies your specific need.

If the view you want to create differs significantly from existing views, you can create a view from scratch. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can make a new view appear any way you want. When you create a view from scratch, you base the new view on the screen type of a Microsoft Project predefined view. A screen type is the look and format of a predefined view. For example, you can create a view that looks like the Gantt Chart view or the Resource Usage view.

If the view you want to create is similar to an existing view, you can modify a copy of that view, leaving the original unchanged. Copying an existing view is similar to creating a view from scratch, except that when you copy a view, you can’t choose the screen type. You can only use the screen type of the view you’re copying.

When you edit a view, you change the original view and not a copy of it. Before you edit a view, make sure that you’ll be satisfied with the changes. After you save those changes, you can’t automatically reset the view back to its original form. If you’re not sure you need to edit a view, copy it, and then modify the copy instead.

To create or modify a view

1. On the View Bar, click More Views .
2. To create a view from scratch, click New, click Single view or Combination view, and then click OK.
   To create a view based on an existing view, click that view in the Views list, and then click Copy.
   To edit an existing view, click that view in the Views list, and then click Edit.
3. In the Name box, type a name for the view, select a screen type for a view created from scratch, select a table and a filter, and specify whether the filter should be a highlighting filter.
   To create a new combination view, click a view name in the Top box for the top pane and click a view name in the Bottom box for the bottom pane.
4. To display the new view on the View Bar and View menu, select the Show in menu check box.
5. Click OK.
6. To display the view, click Apply.

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