MS Project: change summary task duration to hours not days?

[Nick Brown]

I want my summary tasks to show the hours / minutes used in my tasks not a
fraction of a day (e.g. 0.2).

Does anyone know how to set this?

 

[Rob Schneider]

I want my summary tasks to show the hours / minutes used in my tasks not a
fraction of a day (e.g. 0.2).

Does anyone know how to set this?

I'm assuming you are referring to the field "duration". You could
create a computed text field which converts the duration number of tasks
in the time format you wish, e.g. "HH:MM", and then display this text
field as a column in the Gantt Chart, or even show this field on the
Gant Chart itself.

 

[Nick Brown]

Thanks Rob - you're a star!

I'm assuming you are referring to the field "duration". You could
create a computed text field which converts the duration number of tasks
in the time format you wish, e.g. "HH:MM", and then display this text
field as a column in the Gantt Chart, or even show this field on the
Gant Chart itself.

 

[JulieS]

Ni Nick,

In addition to Rob's suggestion you could also run the Format_Duration
macro. Tools > Macro > Macros.

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I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

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