How do I change the project calander from 5 day to 7 day week?

I have a project that spans from May 06 to Jan 08. The project calander was
initially set up with holidays as non work days and a 5 day work week. I
want to change holiday non-work days to work days and change to a 7 day work
week and reflect this in completed as well as in-progress and scheduled
activities.

In article <E8B08599-BEBB-43C9-A394-B2448A8828AD@microsoft.com>,
Gary48 <Gary48@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have a project that spans from May 06 to Jan 08. The project calander was
> initially set up with holidays as non work days and a 5 day work week. I
> want to change holiday non-work days to work days and change to a 7 day work
> week and reflect this in completed as well as in-progress and scheduled
> activities.

Gary48,
You can change the working calendar to have a seven day work week but I
question the validity of converting company holidays to work days and
the idea of trying to do this for completed tasks makes no sense at all
- history is history - it's done.

I suggest you open the working time calendar (Tools/Change Working Time)
and starting from today, make all weekends and future holidays (if you
really must) nondefault working time. Then go to Tools/Options/Calendar
tab and set the Hours per week to be 56, assuming you are still using a
standard 8 hour work day. I wouldn't change the Days per month because
it can never truly reflect a seven day work week.

John
Project MVP

[frankcdaly]

Hello Gary,

if you go to tools, change working time. You can set the new calander by goint to exceptions, deleting the holiday exceptions leaving you with just the working time exception. Click on details where you can set your daily working hours by selecting working times and entering your hours, then select weekly and highlight all seven days. Then by setting the range of recurrence to be from the start date to end date of your project it should change the working times of past progress. However, whichever way you have been updating you progress until now will mean that certain start dates entered or % complete per week for example means that your progress wont be fully spread to fill your new working hours.

hope this is of help

frank

Thanks John...and you're right about completed tasks. This helps.

Gary

"John" wrote:

> In article <E8B08599-BEBB-43C9-A394-B2448A8828AD@microsoft.com>,
> Gary48 <Gary48@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a project that spans from May 06 to Jan 08. The project calander was
> > initially set up with holidays as non work days and a 5 day work week. I
> > want to change holiday non-work days to work days and change to a 7 day work
> > week and reflect this in completed as well as in-progress and scheduled
> > activities.
>
> Gary48,
> You can change the working calendar to have a seven day work week but I
> question the validity of converting company holidays to work days and
> the idea of trying to do this for completed tasks makes no sense at all
> - history is history - it's done.
>
> I suggest you open the working time calendar (Tools/Change Working Time)
> and starting from today, make all weekends and future holidays (if you
> really must) nondefault working time. Then go to Tools/Options/Calendar
> tab and set the Hours per week to be 56, assuming you are still using a
> standard 8 hour work day. I wouldn't change the Days per month because
> it can never truly reflect a seven day work week.
>
> John
> Project MVP
>

In article <237B7124-945F-4AF7-9A6A-0C533D583044@microsoft.com>,
Gary48 <Gary48@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks John...and you're right about completed tasks. This helps.
>
> Gary

Gary,
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.
John
>
> "John" wrote:
>
> > In article <E8B08599-BEBB-43C9-A394-B2448A8828AD@microsoft.com>,
> > Gary48 <Gary48@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a project that spans from May 06 to Jan 08. The project calander
> > > was
> > > initially set up with holidays as non work days and a 5 day work week. I
> > > want to change holiday non-work days to work days and change to a 7 day
> > > work
> > > week and reflect this in completed as well as in-progress and scheduled
> > > activities.
> >
> > Gary48,
> > You can change the working calendar to have a seven day work week but I
> > question the validity of converting company holidays to work days and
> > the idea of trying to do this for completed tasks makes no sense at all
> > - history is history - it's done.
> >
> > I suggest you open the working time calendar (Tools/Change Working Time)
> > and starting from today, make all weekends and future holidays (if you
> > really must) nondefault working time. Then go to Tools/Options/Calendar
> > tab and set the Hours per week to be 56, assuming you are still using a
> > standard 8 hour work day. I wouldn't change the Days per month because
> > it can never truly reflect a seven day work week.
> >
> > John
> > Project MVP
> >

Do you mean your resources will never get a day off between May and
January????? That's what setting a 7 day work-week implies - not just that
we have various work schedules that overlap to cover all 7 days of the week
but rather no one on the project team ever gets a day off between when the
project starts and when it ends. If all your resources are machines -
maybe - but human beings can't work that way.
--
Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Gary48" <Gary48@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a project that spans from May 06 to Jan 08. The project calander
>was
> initially set up with holidays as non work days and a 5 day work week. I
> want to change holiday non-work days to work days and change to a 7 day
> work
> week and reflect this in completed as well as in-progress and scheduled
> activities.