Back to Basics: Find the task quickly

This helpful topic just came across from Toney Sisk in the Project Professional IW writing team:

Back To Basics: Find the task quickly

If you roam around in the Gantt Chart, sooner or later you may get lost. It can be a jungle in there, especially as projects get more complicated, and the bar side of the chart begins to show a large number of lines that seem to go nowhere after a while. Or worse, as the Gantt View may not show any bars, and you’re left wondering: Where did my project data go? What you want is something like a Here You Are button.

In Project, this button is called the Scroll to Task button, and even advanced project managers somehow don’t know the button is there to be clicked when all else fails.

Here’s an example. The bars have disappeared from the right side of the chart of a complicated project with a zillion task dependencies:

But when I click the Scroll To Task Button on the Standard toolbar (or Ctrl + Shift + F5), the bars come into view:

You may find this the most used command in Project, because, like I say, it can be a link-line jungle in there.