Help define overflow tasks for me

[Pete]

I ran out a calender view of my tasks and the last page shows several tasks
as "overflow tasks". I have linked all the tasks start to finish and the
dates in Gantt view do not show any conflict??

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

There's only so much space to print tasks on a given date in the Calendar
view. "Overflow" just means the date box is full. Your tasks are still
scheduled as they should be so it's not something you need to be overly
concerned about. Just the printout doesn't look as tidy as it might.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Pete,

The overflow tasks on the printed copy of the Calendar view are just tasks
that won't fit on the printed page. About 3-4 tasks per day is all that
will fit.

You may be able to squeeze a few more tasks on the printed page by modifying
margins or changing the formatting of the bars to lines to Format>Bar
Styles.

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

Julie

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Pete,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

As I understand it, Project places tasks in the calendar in ID order. If
there are too many to show, Projects lists them in an Overflow list. If you
increase the space available, more items will show and there will be less
overflow. Try moving the cursor on the dividing line between weeks until it
turns into an up/down arrow, click and drag down to increase space until the
Overflow arrow disappears. If that is not enough, try a right-click in the
Calendar and select Layout Now, whence Project will make another attempt to
fit all the tasks in view. Remember that you can always click and drag
tasks upwards to fit into a suitable space. Other than that, you have to
resort to making the font smaller via Format/Text Styles...

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Pardeep Anand]

I prepared my Gantt chart and looked at the calendar view. A few activities are not visible in the calendar view but are seen in the overflow task. Please suggest how to see these in the calendar, too. Also, please advise me on how to set the overflow task in ascending and descending order of dates.

Regards
Pardeep Anand