Highlight activities for updating

You can highlight activities in the layout that are scheduled to occur during a specific timeperiod. Then, you can choose to manually or automatically update the activities.

1. With the Activities window active, choose View, Progress Spotlight, or click on the Tools toolbar to add a timeperiod equal to the smallest increment of the displayed timescale from the previous data date.
   
   P6 Professional spotlights activities that should have started, progressed, or finished between the previous data date and the new data date in the Gantt Chart.
   
   To increase/decrease the area between the previous data date and the new date by one or more timescale increments, drag the data date line in the Gantt Chart.
2. Automatically or manually update the highlighted activities, or immediately reschedule the project according to the new data date by pressing F9.

Notes

• If multiple projects are open, P6 Professional will highlight activities from the data date of the default project (Project, Set Default Project).
• Unlike selected activities, when Progress Spotlight is active, activities remain spotlighted even when you click in another area of the layout.