Display multiple timescales on your timeline

Overview 

Office Timeline Pro+ lets you display up to 3 timescales on your timeline for better calendaring. Here’s how to do it:

Steps

  1. From your timeline slide, select the timescale to open its options in the Style Pane and then click on Timescale Settings.timescale-settings-button-style-pane

  2. In the window that pops up, you’ll see 3 scale tiers – top, middle and bottom - whose Visibility you can turn on or off depending on how many scales you want to show on your timeline.scale-tier-visibility

  3. For each timescale you’ve toggled on, you can choose a different band color, the units to display (e.g. years, quarters, months etc.), the type format you prefer, and the interval between units:customize-scale-tiers-timescale-options-1

  4. Once done, click save and the changes will automatically apply to your timeline slide:swimlane-with-multiple-timescales

Quick tips:

  • You can style your timescales even further from the Style Pane – e.g. change text fonts, colors and sizes – and use “Apply to all” to transfer your styling options to all scales simultaneously.style-timescales-further-style-pane

  • To remove a timescale, toggle its Visibility off from Style Pane->Timescale Settings-> Scales. Note that you can’t remove all scales – at least one timescale (whichever one) must be visible.remove-scale-tiers-timescale-settings-office-timeline-add-in

If you have any questions about adding, editing or removing multiple timescales, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’ll be happy to help.