topic Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options in Project data & BIM

Schedule - single cell Format Options

Paolo Pi — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:46:51 GMT

Hi everyone.

I am afraid I already have the answer to this question, but I want to be 100% sure.

Is it possible to change Format Options (f.ex text in Italic instead of Regular) to only selected cells of a schedule instead of an entire item (f.ex the Header or the Value cells)?

I am pretty sure it´s not possible. Please contradict me 🙂

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

Barry Kelly — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:03:07 GMT

You should be able to change the bold/italic/underline and justification individually for each of the headers, but not the rest of the cells.

Font, size and colour affect all headers at the same time.

At least this is the case in version 22 - i don't have anything else open at the moment.

Barry.

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

Paolo Pi — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:35:20 GMT

Thanks for your reply Barry.

Do you know if Graphisoft is taking into consideration improving these features in the schedules?

The text formatting is really bad and it would be great to have the possibility to personalize and have a nicer-looking result.

Have a nice day.

Paolo

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

Barry Kelly — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:57:14 GMT

There are new features coming in 27, but not individual editing of cell text formats that I can see.

Other than what I showed before.

Barry.

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

James B — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:17:36 GMT

Hi Paolo.

Would it be possible to see an example of what you’re wanting to achieve? This can help us as we make improvements in the future.

Thanks.

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

Paolo Pi — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:29:09 GMT

Hi James.

It would be great to be able to change the format in one single cell or in a raw of a schedule.

What I can do today is change the Format option of a selected Item (for example the item Value). What I would like to do is change the background color or change the text to Italic in a single specific Value cell, like the one marked in the screenshot.

Basically having the possibility to edit any single cell independently like you can do for example with Excel.

Thanks.

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

James B — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:44:35 GMT

Hi Paolo.

And what is it about that particular cell that you want to highlight it differently to the other cells?

Thanks.

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

Paolo Pi — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:50:48 GMT

I just want to highlight the cell, for example to show which part of the schedule or which information has changed after a revision.

In general to have the freedom to change the aspect (format of the text, color of the background etc...) of the cell for bare aesthetic reasons.

Thanks.

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

Paolo Pi — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:56:19 GMT

As an example, I would like to edit the schedule like this.

(this is done in Excel)

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

James B — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:55:57 GMT

Hi Paolo, it seems that what you're after is probably something like rule based formatting - like Excel does. Based on a certain value, a cell is coloured/formatted accordingly. We've also seen this request come up a few times, but I'll add your example too.

Re: Schedule - single cell Format Options

Paolo Pi — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:58:10 GMT

This is exactly what I am looking for.

Thanks for your help and hopefully we will see this in the near future!