Std Rates less than $1

[Pat]

For material resources with standard rates less than $1, the value appears
as "$0" in the Std. Rate field of Resource Sheet (even though the material
cost is calculated correctly when it is assigned). Is there a way to get it
to show the fractional dollar amount (i.e. $0.40) in the Std. Rate field of
the Resource Sheet? Seems like there should be a way to do this, but it's
not obvious how.

Thanks for the help.

Pat

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

What version of Project is this? My 2003 happily accepts rates of
less than a dollar for both materials and regular resources.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

In Tools, Options, View, Check Currency options - Decimal digits.
HTH

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Pat,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Hmmmmmm. What version of Project are you using? In my Project Standard
2005, the decimal values are shown by default. I tried a material resource
with £0.46, and that is just what is shown. Have a look at
Tools/Options.../View tab and make certain that the currency settings are
shown as 2 decimal places.

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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[Pat]

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

I'm running Project 2003. I searched around a little more (after posting
this) and came across the "decimal digits" setting in the options menu, as
Jan suggested. Although this addressed the problem (I was able to see the
fractional std. rate setting in the Resource Sheet) it applied that format
to all fields. What I was actually hoping to do was to just set that one
(Std. Rate) field to show 2 decimal digits, and not any of the others. Is
there a way to do this? I'm guessing not.

It would be nice if Project had the same formating flexibility that Excel
has. Maybe in a future release.

Thanks again.

Pat

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Nope, they're an all or nothing deal. As for formatting options like
Excel - different tools for different purposes with different priorities.
Project is a work scheduler, not a financial calculator.

 

[Pat]

Nope, they're an all or nothing deal. As for formatting options like
Excel - different tools for different purposes with different priorities.
Project is a work scheduler, not a financial calculator.

Thanks. It's not a big issue, and I can live without that level of control.

Pat