Hours per day vs Calendar hours
Hi,
When you say you've set the Hours per day for the calendar, do you mean that you've used the Options dialog box to change the Hours per day setting from 8.00 to 5.00?
This is a confusing option - it sounds like it should limit the hours of work that can be done in one day, but it doesn't. What it actually does is specify how many hours are scheduled when you enter a duration for a task of 1 day. Even more confusingly, this isn't done for a single calendar, but for the entire project.
If you entered a duration of 1 day for a task you'll see that you only get 5 hours. If you're entering durations in hours then the setting you've changed will have no effect.
To actually change the amount of time that can be worked in a day you'll need to modify the working hours for a calendar. Choose Project -> Change Working Time. You then need to specify the working times for each day - in Project 2007/2010 click the Work Weeks tab at the bottom of the dialog, select the Default work week and then click Details...
Now you can set the start and end times for work on each day of the week.
Hope it helps.
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