Mktse, thank you for your reply, but probably I couldn’t make myself clear enough, because the question was not about the criteria of criticality at all. I would like to see my current activity bar as critical (if it really is) but on the other hand, not my small target bar underneath (if it is not critical in the target schedule). In other words, we are talking about an activity which was not a critical activity in the target schedule, but in the current schedule it became critical.

Anyway, my colleague sitting next to me in the office came out with some sort of a solution: Go to Format Bars window, uncheck Critical check box for the target bar. Then it won’t show the target bars as critical. But, in this case you won’t be able to see your already-critical target activities’ target bars with the critical colour. One way to prevent this is to go to Format Selected Bars - Modify Bar Format and change the colour of those particular activities, which were critical in the target schedule, back to to the critical colour. But of course this is a quite cumbersome method if you have a large schedule.