MS Project question

[sixto]

Is there a way to show only workday hours in a Gantt chart? I'd like to show a task that takes two hours to scale, but if the first hour occurs on day 1 and the second hour occurs on day 2, the task bar stretches over 18 hours.

I've tried all the settings I found but nothing limits a Gantt chart day to working hours or simply 8 hours.

Any gurus out there?

Thanks,
Sixto
87 300D

[CSchmidt]

From Project '03 help

"Note Although you can format nonworking time, you cannot remove it from the timescale (timescale: The time period indicator at the top of the Gantt views, the Resource Graph view, the Task Usage view, and the Resource Usage view. You can customize it to show up to three tiers that can display various time units: top, middle, and bottom.) in a view. "


Format nonworking time on the Gantt Chart view

On the View menu, click Gantt Chart.
On the Format menu, click Timescale.
Click the Non-working time tab, and then select a color and a pattern.
Note Nonworking time appears on the Gantt Chart view only when it occurs in default increments of the bottom tier of the timescale or greater. For example, if the bottom tier of the timescale is weeks and Saturdays are specified as nonworking time, the nonworking days don't appear.


My comments:

The non-working time will still show up as part of the left to right time scale. You can have the non-working time overlay the task bar instead of having it behind the task bar. This will make it appear to end at the end of the work day and start again on the next day. Right click on the gantt section on the right of the plan. There is a non-working tab / option. Choose the middle option of Draw: in front of task bars. This is like ordering object in powerpoint - only the top one is visible.

[sixto]

And that will blank but not close the nonworking 16 hours between the first hour and last hour of a 2 hour task? That's probably good enough. Thanks.

Sixto
87 300D