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How to Create

Baseline Summary Bar

Ahmad Setayandeh
www.globalprojectcontrol.com

11/22/2020
How to Create Baseline Summary Bar

In this Lesson, I am going to show how to create Baseline Summary Bar and present
it in the Gantt chart.

At the first please go to the Gantt chart area and right-click for the “Bar” dialog box

Then please push “ADD”, a new bar line added to your Bars, so please use to below
setting

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• Re-Name new bar in the “Name” column.

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• Assign the time scale, for instance, “Primary baseline Bar”. Please look at the
below picture

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• Modify the new Bar style for Bar’s Shape, color, pattern, and Row. It is
important to select it properly!

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• On the Bar Setting use to checkmark “Show bar for grouping bonds”

Notice: if you use to correct setting “filter” column change from “all activities” to
“summary”

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• Final Step: select “Display Check mark”

Now you can find the Summary Baseline Bar in your Gantt Chart

Note 1

Note 2

Result: Now, if we collapse the WBS, we can present the Summary Duration
Variance (note 1) by Baseline Summary Bar. Also, we can expand the project to show
both activity and summary duration variance together (note 2).

Please review the video for further information


ü Link to Video https://youtu.be/EiSUJnVS1Q8

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