All durations are actually stored as minutes and are converted to hours
and/or day etc using the conversion factors listed in Tools Options
Calendar. When you entered your tasks the "day" was defined as something
other than 9 hours, probably 8. Project converted that to minutes for
storage. When you changed the definition of a "day" the minutes the task
would take stayed exactly the same but is now converted to a different
number of "days." Example - With the default calendar definition you enter
a task as being 1 day. That's 8 hours or 480 minutes. You now change the
definition of day to be 9 hours, or 540 minutes. But you task is still 480
minutes, thus it is 480/540 or .89 days.
Your options are either to just live with it or to re-enter the task
durations manually and remember next time to define your project calendar
and standard conversions before entering any tasks.
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MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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Christopher Oldcorn said:
I have a project where I had to change the project calendar to Mon-Thurs
7AM-5PM. I changed the working times to 9 hours/day, 36hrs/week, and 16
working days a month. Now my headings are in decimal format eg. 10.11 days.
How do I get them to be 10 days for example? Any help would be greatly
appreciated!
