Calendar View -- How to view tasks with long names but short durat

[Datian]

I switched one of my project plans to calendar view to make it more legible
to clients.

Task names in bars that stretch across 1 day or more generally appear
without a problem. However, tasks with durations of, say, 2 hours, but
longer names, only display a couple of the first letters in the task bar.
That is, all except for one, which shows a short, small box with a solid
outline but with the name of the task displayed in a dash-delineated area to
the right; this would work fine for my purposes if I could get all the short
duration tasks to do this, but have not been able to figure out how.

Suggestions?

 

[Rod Gill]

Don't use Calendar view!!

This is one of a number of problems with the calendar view. You also have a
limit to the number of tasks able to be shown for any one day.

On another note a 2h task is very expensive in overheads. By the end of the
project you could easily spend an hour scheduling, updating and modifying a
task. This means you project could get hit with a 50% increase in labour
costs if all your tasks were 2h long. Many people advocate having 2d as the
minimum duration.

To get a round the need to record all tasks needed, I advocate having
checklists in Excel for collections of short tasks. So, to build a new
server I would have all its tasks in an Excel checklist with a hyperlink to
the checklist from the single task in Project that represents the checklist
super-task.

 

[Datian]

I need MS Project's enterprise capabilities because I need to be able to view
all projects across all my project managers at a glance. However, I work at
a large agency with significant swaths of people that will not accept Gantt
charts as a representation of the schedules. I must be able to use Calendar
View in order to communicate deadlines internally and externally to clients.
If it is impossible to make MS Project represent the schedule acceptably in
Calendar View, and there is no 3rd party plug-in that will give me that
capability, I will have to abandon MS Project as our project scheduling
software, and even MS as an OS in favor of Macs.

Appreciate your help.