Work field for task

[TheClassic]

I'm relatively new to Project and am using 2007.I want to use Fixed
Work tasks, since that makes the most sense to me. However, for the
life of me I can't figure out where I can define the amount of work
necessary for a task.
BTW I plan on using Project for several things, including managing
many things, from projects at work to things I need to do around the
house.

 

[Jim Aksel]

on the main menu: Insert/Column. Select Work.

Alternative: Window/Spit... The bottom pane will contain task information
including resources and the amount of work to assign to each.

If you need additional assistance, go to the link below and start clicking
around until you see "Mike's Tutorials"... they're great
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Jim

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[Steve House]

Fixed Work (or Fixed Units or Fixed Duration, for that matter) is a switch
you use to control what Project calculates for you when you edit existing
resource assignments. You can always estimate the required work for a task
regardless of the task type setting if you wish. Frankly, Fixed Units
(Project's out-of-box setting) makes much more sense to me since it means
the commitment of the resources will be constant and if the work goes up the
duration should also go up and vice versa. Since a resource would usually
be expected to give a task their full attention from the time they start it
until it's complete, working on it at 100% or whatever rate their other
duties allow if they have to juggle several things at once, Fixed Units is a
much more accurate model of real world behaviour. If I can have him for his
full workday, he'll work at 100% and if I double the amount of work I
estimate the task will take, the time it'll take him to do it should also
double - that's Fixed Units behaviour, not Fixed Work.