How do I turn off effort driven scheduling on all tasks in my pro.

[Dani's Mom]

I have a lengthy list of tasks already in my project. How do I turn off
effort driven scheduling for all of these tasks without having to open each
task record individually? Thanks.

 

[DWeb]

In any task view (i.e. Gantt Chart), click in the blank square above the row
number 1 and to the left of the column headers - this will highlight all
tasks. Click the "Task Information" button on the Standard menu bar. Click
the Advanced Tab. The effort driven check box will be grayed out - Click it
once to make sure it is clear, with no check mark, or gray. Click Ok and
you're done!

Hope that helps!

 

[Haris Rashid]

hi,
Hi

In the menu bar click Tools and select Options. Now go to the “Scheduleâ€
tab. Un-check the box that reads: “New tasks are effort drivenâ€.

Regards,

Haris

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

This will unfortunately only act on new tasks.
DWeb's suggestion is one of the ways to achieve this for existing tasks.

 

[Steve House [MVP - MS Project]]

That only effects tasks that are added after making the change and does not
change the settings of any tasks already in the project. She needs to
select all the tasks in question, click the Task Information button on the
toolbar, and clear the Effort Driven checkbox on the advanced tab to change
existing tasks.

 

[Steve House [MVP - MS Project]]

Other posts have answered your question but I need to chip in - are you
really sure you want to do this? The setting of effort driven and
non-effort driven shouldn't really be considered global properties. In
fact, it can change several times for a given task over the course of
developing the plan depending on what kind of resource edits you're making
at the moment. I think of it as a switch setting that you, the PM, can use
to insure project recalculates the right thing when you add or remove people
from a task. If you have someone painting a wall and add a second painter,
effort driven is usually appropriate since 2 painters will get it done
quicker than one. OTOH, if you're sending people to attend a presentation,
non-effort driven makes more sense since a 1-hour presentation will take 1
hour regardless of whether there's 10 or 100 people in the audience.