Project 2007- lunch hour

[Qasim]

I am trying to make a Gantt Chart for a small project. I am having some
problems with the lunch hour. There is a gap in my Gantt Chart for one hour,
startting at 12.
I would rather not have this one hour gap or, if I must then possibly move
it to a later time. Is this possible?

Qasim

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,
(Project 2003)
Tools, Change Working time.
Select the headers for all weekdays
Modify working hours as desired.
(Project 2007)
Tools, Change Working time
Click Work Weeks
Click Details
Select all Workdays
Click Set days to these specific...
OK, OK, etc.

Don't know why a simple operation was made more complex in 2007, but that is
how it is.

Greetings,

 

[Steve House]

Careful if you do that. If you actually take an hour's lunch yet don't
reflect the time in the calendar, a task starting at 8am and ending at 5pm
will have a duration of 9 hours and the work for a 100% resource will be
listed as 9 man-hours when in fact it should only be 8 (the lunch time is
non-working and shouldn't be counted). You'll be over-estimating the work
by 12%. This amount of error means that there will be half a day's error in
your project's calculations accumulating for each week and resource in the
project, a signifigant amount.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Qasim ,

Try Format/Timescale and in the Non-working time tab select to draw the
non-working time behind the task bars.

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for Project Tutorials

 

[Nicki]

Hi,
(Project 07)
I am trying to put public holidays in. I have highlighted the selected days
and then followed your instructions below however it makes everyday for the
whole year non-working.
Thanks

 

[JulieS]

Hello Nicki,

Jan's directions below are to change the working time for every working
day, not to add holidays. To add holidays:

Tools > Change Working Time.
Select the appropriate calendar from the "For calendar" drop-down
Scroll the calendar to the correct month and select the specific day
(January 1 for example)
On the "Exceptions" tab enter a name for the holiday (New Year's Day for
example).
Click the Start field to populate the field with the date.
Click the Details button and if desired, set a range of recurrence to
Yearly and set a number of recurrences to mark January 1 as a
non-working day for several years.
Click the OK button to close the Details dialog box and return to the
Change Working Time dialog box.
Scroll to another month and repeat the process as necessary.

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

Julie
Project MVP

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