MS Project - Activity Durations

Hello Mary,

It has something to do with calendars and work time.

If the file got very few activities, why dont you just start all over again.

Cheers

Charlie

Thanks for the reply Charlie, unfortunately it has over 2000 activities, so I don’t really fancy starting again!! I can’t see any options in Working time or calenders, but I will keep searching. Thanks

Hi Mary,

2000 Activities in MS Project is a piece of cake. Wanna Bet.

You send to me the file and I will redo it for you. We have a holiday here so Thursday and Friday I can do it for you. After that I have no more time, ill be very busy.

What you will get is a duration without decimal. However, the integrity of such duration shall be checked by you.

Cheers,

Charlie

Decimals in MS Project only appear when the duration of the activity is not in whole units of day (assuming day is the measuring unit). This means that for some activities in your schedule, either the start and/or finish date/time do not coincide with the working hours set in your calendar.

To resolve this, go to Tools->Options->View and change the Date format from "28 Jan ’02" (or whatever it is set at) to any that as time format included, e.g. "28 January 2002 12:33". Then you will be able to see those activities with start/finish times not coinciding with your working hours in calendar and change them accordingly.

Rgds,
Sim K.S.

Hello,
Decimal places in the duration field really means the duration is not a entire number of the displayed unit, say Days or Weeks.
You cannot change the duration unit for subordinate tasks whose duration was entered by a user; You CAN change the duration unit for the summary task by Tools, Options, Schedule, Display (or View) duration in ...
If you want to change the subordinate duration unit, copy the whole duration column and paste to a spreadsheet; write a formula to display the duration in the unit of your choice, paste it back to MS Project.
All the best