Microsoft KB Archive/113648

Project: Nonworking Time Not Drawn to Correct Time

PSS ID Number: Q113648 Article last modified on 10-20-1995

4.00 | 4.00

WINDOWS | MACINTOSH

= SUMMARY =

In Microsoft Project, when you display nonworking time on the Gantt Chart, and you decrease the timescale to six hour or two hour intervals, nonworking time is not drawn to the correct time.

= CAUSE =

Nonworking time is always displayed to the nearest whole minor timescale unit on the Gantt Chart. When you zoom to six-hour intervals on the Gantt Chart, nonworking time is always displayed in six-hour intervals.

If your default work time is from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and you view your project in six hour intervals in the Gantt Chart, nonworking time is displayed from 6:00 PM, the next whole minor timescale after 5:00 PM in six hour intervals, to 6:00 AM, the last whole minor timescale before 8:00 AM when working time begins again. Note that this leaves a gap from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, and from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM. This gap should be displayed as nonworking; however, it is not displayed this way.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior
(The following steps assume a default work time of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.)


 * 1) In a new project, choose Timescale from the Format menu.
 * 2) Select the Nonworking Time tab. Under Draw, select the Behind Task Bars option. From the Color box, select Green. From the Pattern list, select the Solid pattern. Choose OK.
 * 3) On the Standard toolbar, click the Zoom In button until the timescale is displayed in six-hour intervals.

Note that non-working time is displayed from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM even though nonworking time for the project is from 5:00 PM to 8:00 AM.

= REFERENCES =

For more information about Changing Working Days And Hours, choose the Search button in Help and type:

nonworking days KBCategory: kbusage KBSubcategory:

= Additional reference words: 4.00 =

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