Gantt Bars offset by a day

I havent had this problem but I would check the hours. It may be such that you are starting the activity at 6pm and not 8am or 9am. So go to options and change date format to dd/mmm/yy:hh and confirm the times.

Even if you are planning by days underneath msp still plans by the hour but the formatting cuts the hours off. I have seen a plan where they had played around with the no. of hours per days and 4 days of work gave them 5 or something.

Another possibility may be problems with start milestones and finish milestones. Having the hours on and changing to finish milestones you may find the solution.

Thanks for that.

It’s very strange I have looked through the hours etc and it doesn’t seem to be the cause.

If I have a task that runs from 09:00 on a monday to 09:00 on a Tuesday the block on the gantt chart is displayed just for the whole of Tuesday, even thought the majority of the work is to occur on the Monday.

I wonder whether it may just be a setting somewhere that is incorrect? Is there anyway to reset all of Microsoft Project’s settings back to default incase I’ve altered something I shouldn’t have done?

Many Thanks

James

Actually I take it all back it was down to the Options -> calendar settings. I’d set the default start & end times to 00:00 as i was using a 24 hour calendar. It would appear that for whatever reason project doesn’t like this and is much happier when the default start and end times were set to 8:00 and 17:00 respectively...

Thank you for your help!

James, Calendar option "Default start time" MUST BE coherent with the "opening hour" of a standard day as defined in the calendar dialog box; i.e. if you define the standard day as "8:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00", you have to enter 8:00 and 17:00 as default start and default end time in the calendar options; also, as changing these settings after the project is built will NOT change the project start date-and-time, yu should go to Project, Project infos, display the time with the date and make sure the project starts at the beginning of the day and not later. Cheers, Alexandre

Jmaes,

i knw you have solved this problem but as soon as wrote this:

> If I have a task that runs from 09:00 on a monday to > >09:00 on a Tuesday

I knew immediately something was wrong as 1 day activity by default would start at 8am and finish at 5pm. So assuming you were using days then this impled you had a 24 hour calendar.

To resolve this using a 24 hour calendar then the start should be 0:00 and not 9am.