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mbart151
Occasional Reader
Jan 19, 2026

Is there a way to graphically highlight all of the tasks under a summary?

Looking to create what would essentially be a coloured background for all of the tasks in the gantt chart, under a summary. Been looking online and watching tutorials, but cant find what I am looking for. The image shows what I am trying to do (was done after the fact with a PDF reader, would prefer to do it straight in MS project). 

 

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  • John-project's avatar
    John-project
    Silver Contributor

    mbart151,

    Sorry but there is no built-in feature for background colors for the Gantt display. What you could do though is create custom bar styles for the various subtask groups under summary lines using the 20 available Flag fields. The background would still be white but the Gantt bars would be separately identifiable.

    John

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