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The default method of grouping tasks in Microsoft Project by Summary Tasks (WBS) works perfectly well for lookahead schedules, however adding another lookahead schedule View with tasks group by dates can be useful to the project team
8 May 2025 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
Do you want to highlight tasks that are late on your Microsoft Project Lookahead schedule Gantt chart? Then follow the steps outlined in this video on how to format Bar Styles to draw focus to tasks that are late when compared to their baseline finish dates.
26 Nov 2023 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
Do you want to carry out variance analysis against more than one baselines in Microsoft Project but cannot find a way to do so out of the box?Custom Field is my go to feature whenever I need a workaround in Microsoft Project and again they have come to the rescue. In this YouTube video, I demonstrat
4 Jun 2023 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
This YouTube video demonstrates one way to add a milestone on a Microsoft Project Task bar (same row), e.g., Stage Gate, Go-Live date or a Decision Point.Note that for this solution to work, the Task Mode must be set to Auto Scheduled.
15 Apr 2023 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
While Microsoft Project does not have a straight of the vbox Level of Effort activity type like primavera P6, you can still add Hammock or Level of Effort tasks to your Microsoft Project schedule, using one of 2 workarounds. The first workaround is the recommended method from Microsoft while the sec
5 Mar 2023 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
Sometimes during project budget proposal requests, bidders might only want to show indicative dates in their bid schedules to the client and an easy way to do this is by showing only the month and year of a task in a Microsoft Project schedule.
12 Feb 2023 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
While Primavera P6 users are restricted to same date format for all Layouts of a schedule, Microsoft Project users have the luxury of using different date formats in different Views of the same schedule.
6 Feb 2023 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
How would you like to create a rolling date lookahead filter in Microsoft Project instead of using the default Date Range filter? Users of Primavera P6 are used to defining the criteria for lookahead filters using Data Date or Current Date and we can also do same in Microsoft Project using Status Da
9 Apr 2022 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
While one can update Actual Start and/or Actual Finish dates in Microsoft Project by displaying these columns, my preferred method is using the Task Details Form which is very similar to the Activity Details Form in Primavera P6.In this short video, I show how to enable and use the Task Details Form
18 Oct 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
There are times when stakeholders use week numbers to discuss the dates in a project schedule and they would like to see columns of week numbers in the schedule. The tutorial outlines steps to follow in order to display week numbers such as "2021 Week 35" in a Microsoft Project schedule.The tutorial
13 Jun 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
