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
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Project for Windows, version 4.0
 - Microsoft Project for the Macintosh, version 4.0
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SUMMARY
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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
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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
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(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
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For more information about Changing Working Days And Hours, choose
the Search button in Help and type:
 
    nonworking days
 
KBCategory: kbusage
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Additional reference words: 4.00
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