[webproducers] Re: preferences file for MS Project

On 11/7/01 7:45 AM, "Chris Hartley" <chris.hartley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 
> Greg's right - this is not a registry problem, but a "feature" of MS
> Project.  The logic behind MSproj is derived from the dark ages of project
> management, so it doesnt all make sense...
> 
> For whatever reason, you have to set the working hours up TWICE.
> 
> Part One:
> 
> Select the "Change working time" tab, under the tools menu.  This allows you
> to alter:
> - The working day: start and end, lunchtimes.
> This appears to suggest that you have altered your working hours (number of
> hours per day).  This is not the case!
> 
> - The calendar: you can designate days as working/ non-working.
> This is so you can set-up your project calendar to include Bank Holidays/
> Public Holidays/ Company Awaydays (if only, in our present economic climate
> ;-) and so on.  The calendar doesn't have public holidays built in because
> they fall on different days each year, and differ from country to country.
> 
> PART TWO
> To ensure that your project is set up with the right number of hours per
> day, click on the OPTIONS button at the bottom of the "Change working hours"
> box.  This pops-up the "calendar" part of the "OPTIONS" tools.  Change the
> working hours here to 30, and the hours per day to 7.
> 
> If you do both of these you should find that your project file behaves
> itself.

Thanks for all your help, everyone who had suggestions.

I ended up starting with yet another fresh, new file and followed the
directions here, and this seemed to get me on the right track. I believe
that I had somehow gotten the number of working hours out of sync in the two
different places.

However, in order to get it to recognize 7 hour days accurately, I had to
manually override the default settings for each working day planned for the
project. I think I had encountered this before, and had attempted to change
the actual defaults, which is how Project got confused.

Does anyone know how to set this up so that I don't have to manually set
each day, but it won't make a complete mess out of my schedule?

Thanks!

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Maia Gemmill * Production Manager
Hearst Interactive
959 eighth avenue
new york ny 10019
t:  212.649.2336   f:  212.957.8524
mgemmill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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