Re: Duration/Work

Hi Quixote,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Where are you entering Work? Check Tools/Options.../Calculation tab and
ensure Calculation mode is on Automatic. When you enter a new tasks, they
will start on the Start Date of your project or on the current date
depending upon the setting selected in Tools/Optons.../Schedule tab - New
Tasks setting. You can select the 24 hours calendar in Project/Project
Information calendar setting - but remember, if you assign resources thet
will be required to work 24/7 unless you adjust assignment calendars.

You might like to have a look at my series on Microsoft Project in the
TechTrax ezine at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the articles before leaving the site, :)
Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

quixote wrote:
I am getting frustrated with how Project calculates(or doesn't)...I
know this is probably user error.
I have added tasks, indented some lines so they would be subtasks,
assigned a resource and added work hours. The subtask work hours are
not adding up to the main task..the task just has zero even though
subtasks have values and duration hasn't changed from the default.
Another issue...I have the start date from the past but some of the
subtasks have the current date and I can't change it...what am I
doing wrong??!!!

also...I played around with trying to set up a 24/7 calendar but it
didn't seem to work. I have an iterative project that should have
lots of predecessors that will just continue on regardless of the
time of day or what day it is...but I can't make sense of how
duration is being calculated...any ideas on this would be appreciated
too


Thanks


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