Calendar for 9/80 Work Week

[Redneck David]

If anyone has experience working in a 9/80 schedule company I would
appreciate your advise. A 9/80 work week is one where we work 9 hours a day
on Monday-Thursday, 8 hours a day on every-other Friday and then take
every-other Friday off.

So far I have set up a calendar with working and non-working days but now I
am looking for advice and an approach so work and the work times are
accurate. So far I have not been able to get the results I am looking for.

If anyone else has done this I would appreciate your help.

I am using 2003 Standard, on XP.

Thanks

 

[Steve House]

It's do-able but will take some manual setup. Open the Tools, Change
Working Times menu. Usig either the standard calendar or a copy of it,
click to select the colum heading for Mon, Tue, Wed, & Thur. Click the
non-default working time radio button and set the work hours to your 9-hour
day, say 8am-6pm with an hour for lunch, for example. Click the column
heading for Fri and set the hours to your 8-day's schedule, say 8-12 and
1-5. So far, that's the easy part. Now the part that's a PITA, you'll need
to go month by month out into the future and individually mark each of the
non-working Fridays as non-working time.

The resulting calendar will be stored in the project file that was open when
you created it. The final step is to open the Tools, Organizer menu and
copy your spanking new calendar from the current file into Global.MPT so you
don't have to reinvent the wheel for every new project you create in the
future.

If this is what you have already done, give us a concrete example of what
you are getting and what you think you should be getting so we can be of
more help.

 

[Redneck David]

It's do-able but will take some manual setup. Open the Tools, Change
Working Times menu. Usig either the standard calendar or a copy of it,
click to select the colum heading for Mon, Tue, Wed, & Thur. Click the
non-default working time radio button and set the work hours to your 9-hour
day, say 8am-6pm with an hour for lunch, for example. Click the column
heading for Fri and set the hours to your 8-day's schedule, say 8-12 and
1-5. So far, that's the easy part. Now the part that's a PITA, you'll need
to go month by month out into the future and individually mark each of the
non-working Fridays as non-working time.

The resulting calendar will be stored in the project file that was open when
you created it. The final step is to open the Tools, Organizer menu and
copy your spanking new calendar from the current file into Global.MPT so you
don't have to reinvent the wheel for every new project you create in the
future.

If this is what you have already done, give us a concrete example of what
you are getting and what you think you should be getting so we can be of
more help.
--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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If anyone has experience working in a 9/80 schedule company I would
appreciate your advise. A 9/80 work week is one where we work 9 hours a
day
on Monday-Thursday, 8 hours a day on every-other Friday and then take
every-other Friday off.

So far I have set up a calendar with working and non-working days but now
I
am looking for advice and an approach so work and the work times are
accurate. So far I have not been able to get the results I am looking
for.

If anyone else has done this I would appreciate your help.

I am using 2003 Standard, on XP.

Thanks

 

[Steve House]

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