Annotate your schedule with text and pictures

Milestones Professional offers many options for adding text and graphics to your schedules.

What you want:	Use this:
name or explain a step (task) in the schedule	column text
a short explanation for a key milestone or task	symbol text
a longer explanation for a key milestone or task, maybe with a picture	symbol note
text which is not related to a milestone or task	freeform text
text which explains what each symbol or bar on the schedule means	legend
a picture or clip art	picture
a picture at a specific date	symbol note or bitmap symbol

Up to 20 columns, up to 10 on each side of the schedule.
Columns can be "smart" or text only. Set a column type to "none" if it will be used for task names or any other text entries.
See Outlining and Summary Bars to learn about creating an outlined schedule.

Enter up to ten thousand characters of text in each symbol's Symbol Notes field.
Hover over symbol to read symbol notes or choose to display formatted notes right on the schedule.
Option to print separate sheet of Symbol Notes.
Choose to highlight and auto-number symbols with Notes.
Sampler below shows many symbol notes features: Learn more.

Type text anywhere on the schedule.
Free-form text does not move with a symbol or with a task line.
Format the text, background, frame, and more.
Up to 40 lines of symbol text. Press enter to start a new line of text.
Use & substitutable text strings to show file name (see example below), date, time, and more.
Learn more about freeform text.

The legend is the area reserved for documenting the usages of various symbols, horizontal bars and vertical links on the schedule.

While legends usually appear below the schedule, they can also "float" anywhere on the schedule.
Legends can display one or two lines of text along with one or two symbols and one (or no) bar.
Learn more about the legend

Applies to Milestones Professional: 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025

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