Using PERT Chart
The PERT Chart is an industry-standard way of displaying the sequence of tasks and their interdependencies. This view provides the majority of the same task management capabilities as are available in the Planning and Timeline views.
Navigation
Navigation in this view is very similar to that of the Planning view. Click any task to highlight it. The data for the highlighted task will be displayed at the top of the screen. Right/Left arrow and Page Up/Down keyboard keys behave as in the Planning view.
Lines from one task to another indicate a dependency - each rightmost task starts when all the predecessors to its left have completed.
A task with zero duration is considered to be a "milestone" and is drawn with rounded corners. Tasks or milestones on the critical path are drawn in red.
Creating and Managing Tasks
As in the planning view,
- A task can be created or deleted at any location using the +T button (at a vacant location) or the -T
button (for a highlighted task).
- A task can be moved from one location to another by dragging with the right mouse button.
- A new linked task can be created by dragging from an existing task to a vacant location using the left
mouse button.
Printing the PERT Chart
PERT Charts can take up a lot of space. There are several things that can be done to minimize taping together multiple sheets of paper. The PERT Chart can be printed on larger size paper (if available on your printer) or a number of pages can be compressed into one graphics file and printed on a single page. | 
