Introduction to the Ribbon

The commands that you use while working on a project are located on a 'Ribbon'. The Ribbon is designed to provide fast access to the commands that you need as you work with your projects. The commands are organised in logical groups, which are collected together under tabs. Each tab relates to a type of activity, such as displaying different items in a view or working with allocations.

The Ribbon's Home tab is illustrated below:

Click the Ribbon tabs to move between them and access the commands that they contain.

Some groups on the Ribbon include a control in the bottom right corner which you can use to launch a dialog, to access more options than are available on the Ribbon itself. For example, the Progress group on the Home tab includes one of these dialog launchers:

Click the control in the Progress group to launch the Enter Progress dialog, which offers you more progress recording options than are available on the Ribbon.

Above the Ribbon, to the top left of the Asta Powerproject window, is the Quick Access toolbar:

You use the buttons on this toolbar to access a number of commonly-used commands.

You can choose to display the Quick Access toolbar above or below the Ribbon. To do this:

1. Click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Quick Access toolbar.
2. Select Show Below the Ribbon or Show Above the Ribbon from the menu that appears.

You can change the colour scheme of the Ribbon. To do this:

1. Click Style Options to the top-right of the Ribbon tabs.
2. Select Colour Scheme from the menu that appears, then select the colour scheme that you want to apply.

You can minimise the Ribbon at any point, which removes it temporarily from view. You may want to do this in order to view more of your project on screen. To do this:

1. Click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Quick Access toolbar.
2. Select Minimise the Ribbon from the menu that appears.

Repeat the steps above to redisplay the Ribbon.