We have already wrote about the various PM templates Merlin has built-in. One of them is called ‘ToDo List’. It was implemented, as the name states, to help you creating easily a list for your ToDos.

If you use this template you will notice that the activities are colored. Can you guess why is this so? No?

Let me give you a tip… Enable the column ‘Priority’ in the Outline, you will see that the activities have priority levels and as you know Merlin applies styles by conditions.

So… now you know. In this project a style set was used for coloring.

To enable the priority coloring onto your project, make sure your activities have the appropriate priority level set, call View > Show View Options, switch to the ‘Styles’ tab if necessary, and select from the ‘Style Sets’ popup the ‘Priority’ set:

To define other colors than the predefined ones,  simply select the conditions (very high priority, low priority, etc ) and edit accordingly.

You may want to check attached screencast