Half day task scheduling problem

[TJ Beebe]

First of all, I am a newbie to this software...

I have a project in which tasks are in increments of half days (4 hours).
When I start linking tasks with half day durations, Project will break the
work up into 5 hours for one task and 3 hours for the other, instead of
evenly distributing 4 hours and 4 hours. I have not changed the units from
100%. This presents a problem becasue it will cause the work associated with
2 half day tasks that were supposed to be completed in one day to be
completed over a 2 day duration (5 hours, 3 hours, and 1 hour the next day).
Please help me understand why this might be happening.

Thank you in advance for your help!

TJ Beebe

 

[JulieS]

Hi TJ,

What time does the first task start? To view start/finish times as well as
date go to Tools>Options and on the view tab select a date format that shows
time.

My guess (without viewing the file) is that you have a task that starts 1
hour into the work day (assuming an 8 hour work day) which forces that
remaining 1 hour into the second day. You may want to take a look at FAQ #
5 "Default Working Hours" at
www.mvps.org/project.

Mike Glen (Project MVP) has also written an excellent series of articles at:

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23

which you may find very helpful to get you jump started with Project.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie