Microsoft KB Archive/71599

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How Overtime Work Calculates in Resource Usage View

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Q71599

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Project for Windows, versions 1.0, 3.0, 3.0a, 4.0
 * Microsoft Project for the Macintosh, versions 1.1, 3.0, 4.0

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SUMMARY
Microsoft Project for Windows and Macintosh attaches all overtime work to the last day that a resource will be working on a task. For example, suppose you have an 80-hour task that under a standard 8-hour working day will take two weeks to complete. However, if a resource is assigned to the task for a total work of 80 hours but 40 is designated as overtime, then the task will take only 5 working days to finish (it is a resource driven task).

If the task is viewed with the Resource Usage view, the resource allocation for the last day (the fifth) will be 48 hours -- 8 hours of work for the day plus 40 hours of overtime attached to it. The hours will be shown as overallocated on the Resource Usage timeline but will not indicate overallocation on the Resource Histogram.

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