Day Counter

[matt6363]

Is there a way to use a count of days instead of a date for a project? For
example, can I start a project on "Day 1" instead of "December 7" and have
the count increase to "Day 2", "Day 3"...?

 

[Jim Aksel]

In P2007 and earlier, you can hide the start/finish date columns. For the
Gantt views you can change the format of the timeline using
Format/Timescale... and select an appropriate format (exampe Week1, Week2...,
or, 1,2,3,... from start or end).

If you want to get busy, you can put a formula in a spare Text or Number
column. Try this one for start: ProjDateDiff([Project
Start],[Start])/[Minutes Per Day]
This will give you all task starting on the first day as "0" ... so you may
want to add "1" to is to correct for this offset.

Note that duration based calcs in Project provide results in minutes.
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[Mike Glen]

Hi Matt,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

In Tools/Options.../View tab Date format, select 1/W05, which means the first day of the 5th week. This format will start at 1/W01 when you set the Project Start in Project/Project Information.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials



Is there a way to use a count of days instead of a date for a project? For
example, can I start a project on "Day 1" instead of "December 7" and have
the count increase to "Day 2", "Day 3"...?