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Timeline Add-in

Getting Started

How to activate your new Lucen Timeline Add-in license

How to check if Lucen Timeline is installed and activated

Getting started with Account Center

How to activate Office Timeline Plus (New Purchase) (Legacy)

How to Activate Timeline Plus (New Purchase)

How to Activate Timeline Expert (New Purchase)

How to activate Office Timeline Expert (New Purchase) (Legacy)

How to install Lucen Timeline

Activate your subscription

Account & Subscription

Is Lucen Timeline SOC 2® compliant?

How to retrieve your Computer ID

Account settings

Log in Options: In-App vs Browser

Timeline Login/Account Management

Login & activation

Lucen Timeline Subscription Roles & Permissions

Roles & permissions

How to assign and unassign seats for Workspace Admins

How to designate or change a Timeline workspace admin

How to Revoke Your License Manager Role

How to assign a Lucen Timeline license key to specific users via GPO

Seats & users

Features & How-to

Add a task duration count in days, weeks or months

Add or change the connectors on your timeline

Adjusting your timeline's vertical position

Arrange milestones to fit more on the timescale

Change the language of your timeline

Change the timescale units (months, weeks, days)

Create planning timelines that are not date-specific

Customize multiple timeline elements simultaneously

Dependency scheduling & date auto-shifting

Display multiple timescales on your timeline

Hide milestones and tasks without deleting them

How to adjust the width of your Swimlane headers

How to create a new timeline using the Timeline Wizard

How to hide and unhide Swimlanes or Sub-swimlanes

How to make timelines and Gantt charts in hours and minutes

How to resize your slide for optimal printing

How to show multiple tasks on one row

How to use dependencies

How to use Planned vs. Actual

How to use timeline themes

Make manual changes in PowerPoint and save them

Position milestone titles exactly where you want them

Quick Start to Timeline Expert

Quick Start to Timeline Free

Quick Start to Timeline Lite

Quick Start to Timeline Plus

Reduce your timeline's width to make room for extras

Set the interval between units on the scale

Show fiscal years on the timescale

Storing your notes in Lucen Timeline

Themes fundamentals

Tip for quickly sharing your timeline with colleagues

Building timelines

Copy and paste from Excel into the add-in

Exporting Lucen Timeline data to Excel

Fit more data on the timeline slide

How to change all dates on the timeline when the project is rescheduled

How to disable Lucen Timeline’s usage data transmission

How to import from Wrike

Ignore Title changes when refreshing data

Import dependencies into Lucen Timeline

Import Excel or Project files stored in SharePoint

Import Planned vs. Actual from Excel

Import Swimlanes or Sub-Swimlanes from Excel

Import Swimlanes or Sub-Swimlanes from Project

Import Swimlanes or Sub-Swimlanes from Smartsheet

Import Swimlanes or Sub-Swimlanes from Wrike

Import your Excel data into Lucen Timeline

Import your Jira data into Lucen Timeline

Import your Microsoft Project plan into Lucen Timeline

Import your Smartsheet data into Lucen Timeline

Refresh timeline data imported from Excel

Refresh timeline data imported from Jira

Refresh timeline data imported from Project

Refresh timeline data imported from Smartsheet

Split your Excel data across multiple timeline slides

Split your MS Project data across multiple timeline slides

Using row IDs in Excel when importing and refreshing data

Why am I asked to reimport when trying to refresh data from Smartsheet?

Importing data

Change the style of your timeline instantly

Changing date formats for milestones and tasks

How to create, edit and share custom themes

How to create, use and share custom templates

How to enable, manage and style dependencies

How to show and style the critical path

Styling & sharing

How to disable the Lucen Timeline add-in

Installation & Deployment

Enterprise / Corporate Deployment How-To for IT Administrators

Detecting the license type installed on user systems

Enterprise deployment

Orders & Billing

Comparison of Lucen Timeline plans

What's the difference between Lucen Timeline Add-in & Online?

How to purchase a subscription

How to Add More Licenses to an Existing Subscription

How to Upgrade Your Existing Subscription to Expert

How to Upgrade Your Existing Subscription to Plus

How to upgrade your existing subscription to Expert (Legacy)

How to upgrade your existing subscription to Plus (Legacy)

I purchased Basic Plan but my license says “Lite” now. What’s going on?

I purchased Pro+ Plan but my license says “Plus” now. What’s going on?

What's the difference between Timeline Add-in & Online?

Buy & upgrade

How to manage your saved payment methods in Account Center

100% Money back guarantee, product returns

Invoices & payment methods

How to Cancel Auto-renewal for My Subscription

Renewals

How to purchase a subscription - Resellers

Renew a customer subscription - Resellers

How to find and pay an invoice - Resellers

Resellers

Where to find updates

Lucen Software Beta Program

Lucen Timeline support for Mac

After upgrading, I no longer see some integrations I used before

Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016 no longer supported

Product Updates

Troubleshooting

Can I configure Lucen Timeline to go through my web proxy?

Lucen Timeline Access Blocked

Account Activation troubleshooting & FAQ

Access & login

Lucen Timeline compatibility with older builds

Common issues when updating

Import error: “To import this Project file, save it in the Gantt Chart view first”

Imported items show as "Not imported" when refreshing data

Lucen Timeline Add-in security information

Lucen Timeline buttons disabled except for New, Import, Templates, and Themes

Lucen Timeline features are hidden

System requirements for Lucen Timeline Add-in

Lucen Timeline tab missing from PowerPoint

Lucen Timeline Tab Missing When PowerPoint Runs as Administrator

Milestone and task dates set on the same day don’t align properly

MS Project import doesn't work ("file corrupt" error)

MS Project incompatibility

Rearrange tasks by dragging and dropping

Smartsheet import not working

The add-in doesn’t load at all or crashes when creating a timeline

The Lucen Timeline add-in does not load automatically

The Style Pane is cut off or not showing properly

Timeline data disappears when trying to edit my visual

Timeline slide sent to others isn't editable

Windows Security blocks Lucen Timeline when launching PowerPoint

Data & display

"Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime is not installed" error prevents installation

Can’t get past the “Close PowerPoint” message during installation

Cannot write to registry key HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID

Error 1001 During Installation or Update

Error installing: "Setup has encountered an unexpected error"

Generic trust failure when installing Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime 2010 (VSTO)

How to manually install WebView2 Runtime

How to Uninstall Lucen Timeline

Install Lucen Timeline with Elevated Privileges

Installation failed – Error “Unable to write to the specified folder”

Installing the Lucen Timeline add-in on Windows XP

Installation

PowerPoint freezes or crashes when using Lucen Timeline

The product key you entered contains unrecognized characters

Licensing & activation

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