Moving around the bar chart

As you view a project, you can move around the bar chart by doing the following:

• Use the bar chart's horizontal and vertical scroll bars. Drag the scroll box along the bar, click the scroll bar at either side of the scroll box, or click the arrow buttons at either end of the scroll bar to bring different areas of the project into view. Use the diagonal scroll buttons to scroll diagonally around the bar chart.
• Click and drag in the date zone: hover the mouse pointer over a blank area of the date zone (ie not over a tick line) and click. When the cursor changes to , you can drag left or right to scroll the bar chart.
• Enter a date into the control in the Show group on the Home tab, then press ENTER. The bar chart scrolls horizontally to bring that date into the center of the window.
• Use keyboard shortcuts such as PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN. All the keyboard shortcuts for moving around the bar chart are listed below.
• Select a bar or spreadsheet cell and click in the Hierarchy group on the Home tab to bring the first task on the selected bar into view (or click the button without selecting anything to bring the first task on the first bar in the current view into view). Note that if a spreadsheet cell that displays data specific to a particular task on a bar is selected, clicking this button scrolls the view so that the particular task is brought into view.

If you have a wheel mouse, you can also move around the bar chart by rotating the wheel to scroll up and down.

Keyboard shortcuts for moving around the bar chart

Press	To
PAGE UP	Scroll up 1 page
PAGE DOWN	Scroll down 1 page
ALT DOWN ARROW	Scroll down
ALT UP ARROW	Scroll up
ALT PAGE UP	Pan left 1 page
ALT PAGE DOWN	Pan right 1 page
ALT HOME	Pan left to the beginning of the view
ALT END	Pan right to the end of the view
ALT LEFT ARROW	Pan left
ALT RIGHT ARROW	Pan right
CTRL HOME	Bring the top left corner of the bar chart into view
CTRL END	Bring the bottom right corner of the bar chart into view