Questions tagged [ms-project]
Use this generic tag for questions that apply to most versions of Microsoft Project. For version-specific questions, please use an alternate tag instead of the catch-all tag. Version tags currently include: ms-project-2003, ms-project-2007, ms-project-2010, ms-project-2013, and ms-project-2016.
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How to use MS Project to plan Bachelor degree modules
In an attempt to keep abreast of all prerequisites for my bachelor degree, as well as the grades and GPA, I have decided to put all the data in an MS Project file.
There are certain modules which ...
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Issue with task scheduling and ordering
I am using MS Project 2010 and trying to align four tasks correctly when importing into a master project. I created my template and the dates are correct, but when entering as a subproject into the ...
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Summary task shows wrong total duration
Microsoft Project 2013: A summary task shows a wrong total of DURATION HOURS: The sum should be 31 hours, but it shows only 25 hours. However, the sum of WORK HOURS is correct. Also, the calculation ...
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How to Add an "Percent Tasks Complete" Column with Rollup to Summary Task (MS Project 2010)
I have a client that wants to add a "Percent Tasks Complete" column to the tasks sheet. For example, the summary task "Safety Tests" contains:
"SafetyTest1"
"SafetyTest2"
"SafetyTest3"
SafetyTest1 ...
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Tasks on my Project do not print
I am using MS Project at work, and I noticed on one job when I print the calendar, certain tasks do not show up. It appears that every task that is lower in the day cell does not show up on the Print.
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Does Microsoft Project fullfill my needs for project management software for less than 10 people managing projects?
I work for a small plastics manufacturing company. We have 14 employees total but only 3-5 to start would be using Project to organize our projects. To this point we have only used excel and other ...
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How to balance tasks in Project based on resources?
I have a situation where I can have multiple tasks run in parallel but I am short on resources. So let's say I have only two people who can do work on a project. How can I set tasks so dates do not ...
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Book recommendations for learning MS Project? [closed]
What book would you recommend for learning MS Project?
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Conditional formatting in MS Project Online Desktop (2019?)
I've created a new column that has "Status Notes" with the following dropdown. I'd like the background to be shaded based on the following (in brackets). Can I do this in MSProject?
I came across a ...
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How to identify tasks that should have started (based on completed prerequisites)
I have a MS Project plan that orchestrates multiple hundred activities over a couple of hours (the tasks also have dependencies) and would like to drive the execution based on the plan.
During the ...
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Rotating-schedule calendar
I'm new both to MS Project and this kind of forum. I've searched for this question and I haven't found it, so sorry if it has been already asked.
I'm trying to make new resources calendars, but they ...
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MS Project Change Working Time - Roster
How can I change the working time to 2 weeks ( working - 14 days) and 1 week (not working - 7 days)? Is this able to be automatically populated?
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How to make identical changes to multiple sub project files
I am about to create a master plan that will contain over 200 small sub project files. Each sub project file will have common elements such as standard Custom fields.
I have created a template for ...
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Estimating Fixed Price Project Cost Payments via Monthly Milestones
I have spent the last few days searching for an answer on how to use MS Project (2010 in my case) to estimate a project's cost via milestones that are split along a long program (2.5 years).
The ...
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How to Specify how Text Colours Should Override Each Other in MS Project
This is a little embarrassing, but I cannot figure out how to do this. I have added Text Style formatting, but I need to change the priority of the formatting.
I have Critical Path tasks formatted ...
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Calculate Cost Deviation
How to calculate Deviation of work and cost of each task on MS project 2010.
There is any option for finding the report of Standard deviation.
How to find "Cost Deviation" in MS project 2010.
Is it ...
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Looking for a way to remove an errant calendar from MS Project Professional 2013
I have a project file with a project calendar that shows up in the Change Working Time dialog box's For Calendar dropbox that is not being using in the project file. I've looked in the Calendar tab in ...
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Which Predecessors/Successor and constraint should I be using?
I'm stuck with an issue with scheduling my construction project.
A concrete slab pour takes only one day to complete and we pour two floors a week, every Tuesday and Saturday (3-day schedule). I set ...
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How to set a specific resource in MS Project to have a max work capacity of 7 hours a day?
I'm working on this slightly complicated project schedule in MS Project 2016. I'm not new to MS Project and have used it for several years, but not necessarily an expert either. For my project, I need ...
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How can I calculate earned value in MS Project with variable costs?
I'm using MS Project to manage training projects as a vendor. We are currently calculating earned value based on the hours budget for deliverables. However, we often have multiple people on the ...
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Setting up two predecessors to the same task in MS Project
Let's suppose there are two tasks (A and B) among others. I'd like to restrict B in such a way that:
It starts 5 natural days after A starts
It finishes 5 laborable days after A has finished
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Presenting the scope (include management into feature or as a separate line)
Working on the project plan and WBS during engagement phases, sales usually want to provide features to the client so that he can pick and choose.
It is easy to do it in excel with % and so on... But ...
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Overrun on Duration
I'm working on a school project and we are having trouble updating our MS Project 2016 file.
For a little background: The tasks all have fixed duration and some have dependencies on others being ...
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MS Project: Scenario planning issue
Relatively new to MS Project and have come across an issue, I've searched through threads to see if I could see anything similar without luck, so apologies if this has been covered previously.
The ...
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MS Project - task duration and end dates don't match
I've got a strange issue in my mpp. I've got one task which was originally estimated to take 20hrs which I scheduled over 15 days (resource only available 30% of the time). Looking at the dates I ...
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MS Project: how to distribute remaining work equally
I have an effort driven task which should take 20 days, to which I assigned 2 resources.
Initially, the work got distributed equally between them (10d each). During the first week of work there were ...
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Why can't the Crash Time be greater or equal to Normal Time?
Scenario
Activity | Normal Cost | Normal Time | Crash Cost | Crash Time | Weekly Crash Cost
A 5,000 4 5,000 4 0
B 8,000 4 ...
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Report to Show Work During Current Week Only
I need to create a work-ahead dashboard for my team, for weekly planning meetings.
We have tasks that span several weeks, so a task may be needing work in the current week but not starting or ending ...
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Omit tasks from team planner
Is it possible to omit some tasks from being used in the calculation of a resources allocation percent.
I've looked at this a number of different ways but in short, I want to have a couple of tasks ...
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Export timescale data from MSproject to Excel
I'd like to export timescale data like work to an excel file from MSProject
We are looking to make a custom dashboard in excel but all timescale are not available to export.
It seems like VBA can do ...
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Actual Start Date Field Behavior
Entering an Actual Start that is earlier than the Scheduled Start, say by 1 hour, is adding the 1 hour to the duration field instead of decrementing the finish date by 1 hour.
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Assign a resource to a task a some time point in the future
I have a long running task, that is beeing handled by one developer. Another developer will be able to help out on that task, but only from some time point in the future on.
Is there any way to set ...
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Microsoft Project 2013: Adding due date and coming-due indicators
First post and new to MS Project, so please bear with me if I forget some minor details.
My question is this:
Is it possible to setup an indicator column in MS Project that displays a multi-tiered ...
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When a resource is over allocated why does the "extend duration of task" option sometimes not appear?
I am pretty green and I am having an issue. I have 2 staff that can commit 50% of their time to the project. I opened the resource sheet and set their units to 50%. Then when I assign someone to a ...
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Master Project with Subprojects - need to share master but without the subprojects included
I have a master project which contains 11 sub projects. Whenever I send the master project to anyone, I have to send all the 11 sub project MPPs out to them too.
Is there a way of creating the master ...
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MS Project 2013 Reports: ACWP in Timephased Line Chart does not match ACWP in Column Chart or Table
Version: Microsoft Project 2013 Standard (15.0.4420.1017)
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I am creating a report in MS Project 2013. When I create a time-phased line chart containing ACWP, the ACWP shown in the chart for ...
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How to make a task not start until all resources are available in Microsoft Project?
I have a project for knowledge transfer so most tasks have 3 resources assigned. I want the KT to happen once, so all resources need to be available before the task can start. How do I make this ...
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Using MS Project for recurring monthly, retainer based project work
We started using MS Projects recently in our small consulting firm, and one of the types of projects we have are retainer(SLA) based, where the client has a contract for a certain amount of hours per ...
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Saving an MS Project Report to a file
Using MS Project 2010, if you click Project->Reports, you have a number of very useful reports, but it seems like the only thing you can do is print them. Can you save them to a file?
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How to send weekly priorities email from MS Project
I think the title is pretty self-explanatory, but let me clarify. I'd like to send a mail to each member of the development team each Monday, which outlines the tasks that they should focus on for the ...
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How to enter holiday calender in Microsoft Project?
I want to enter company holidays in the default working calender in Microsoft Project.
But everytime I create new file, I have to re-enter holidays again.
Is there a way to save the holidays, so ...
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MS Project 2019 (or lower) scheduling algorithm
Whats resource constrained scheduling algorithm is used by MS Project 2019? What RCPSP algorithm is behind a so called a resources leveling in MS Project 2019?
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Auto-populate Lookup values from a custom field
I have written below code for custom field 'Product_task' to take values selected for field 'SFDC Product'
as options. However this doesn't seem to work always. Please let me know your suggestions.
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How can I see 'next available' tasks in MS Project?
I'm used to creating project checklists in software such as OmniFocus, which shows me 'next available' tasks: those that are available now, aren't deferred, whose predecessors have been completed, etc....
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Assign Resources Automatically in the Most Efficient Manner
Firstly I have to state that I am not a project manager. I am a software development team leader that has been tasked with giving a plan for a large project for my team. We work in a Scrum-like ...
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Ms project - Avoid task split up in minutes
I am trying to update my ms project plan with the following:
- replan al 0% and partly completed tasks from the new status date.
- Tasks can be split up
- Plan based on priority and available time for ...
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How to force ms-project to reschedule when all resources are available?
I'm currently trying to setup a meeting in ms-project with 2 resources: Alice and Bob
Alice's calendar is based on the standard calendar (working every weekday):
And Bob's calendar is based on the ...
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MS Project 2013 - How to schedule a 6 hr work week maximum
I am working on a project with over 800 tasks and each task can take anywhere between 10 mins-3 hrs. I am assigning people (team of 10) to do tasks but each person can only be assigned for a maximum ...
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How can you limit the hours entered for a specific task in Microsoft Project Server?
I have projects where I want a task to have a set number of hours charged to it. If three people are charging to the project, 8 hours a day, and I specify that the project can only have 40 hours ...
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Is there a way to deny MS Project to split tasks?
When I use auto-leveling in MS Project to schedule my tasks, some tasks are often split without visible reason. So the plan becomes not too real, like following:
TaskA.. [day break] TaskB TaskC TaskD ...
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