More tasks in Calender View

[Staceman]

Is there any way to increase the amount of tasks shown per day on the
calender? We have only 2 task showing on any given day when there are often
10-15 tasks ongoing. Is there anyway to do this even if we print to an
oversized sheet of paper (24"x36" or larger)?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Staceman,

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

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[JulieS]

Hi Stacemen,

In addition to Mike's excellent answer, you may be able to squeeze on or two
more tasks if you change the format of the task bar (Format>Bar Styles) and
change some of the tasks to a line in the Bar Type list. I still don't
believe you will be able to see 10-15 tasks per day. You may try filtering
the view to look at only a specific resource's tasks to further cut down the
number of tasks.

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

Julie