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ResolvedVersion 2019

Bella has attended:
Time Management course
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Duration

Hi there,

I recently had some MSP training from Ron and had a question to ask on MSP.

At the moment when entering a month into the 'duration' box it does not provide a full month i.e. 01/01/21 - 01/02-21,


Are you able to change this so that a month is a full month?

Thank you,

Bella

RE: Duration

Hi Bella,

Thank you for your question. Because Project doesn't schedule work on weekends as a default, 1 month in Project is actually 4 weeks of working days(20 days). If you want a calendar month, you need to set duration as 22 or 23 days depending on which month you're in. This also assumes that weekends are non-working.

If you need weekends to be working days, you can change this in the Project tab: Change Working Time - Work Weeks - Details. Select Saturday and Sunday, then set the hours the same as for weekdays. You will need to use 30 or 31 days instead of 1 month for duration.
I hope this helps.

Kind regards
Marius Barnard
STL

Thu 12 Nov 2020: Automatically marked as resolved.

MS Project tip:

Typing Links Between Tasks

In the Entry table, use the Precessors column to type in links. Type the previous task's ID to link. To change the link, add FS (Finish-Start), FF (Finish-Finish), and so on, and + duration to add a Lag, or - duration for a Lead time. Example: for task 5, 4FS+1w ... task 4 preceeds task 5, finish to start, with a week lag between.

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