Start date, end date and duration

[Newby]

I am using Project in a simple planning sense without any need to allocate resources atthis stage

When entering in new tasks I am entering a start date and a simple duration of 1 day and the finish date is 4 or 5 days away

How do I get the finish date to equal the start date plus duration

I have tried all the tools options to ensure I have a normal calendar and that my new tasks are not effort driven

 

[Hazza]

Instead of putting in 1 day, put in 1 eday. The 'e' in
front of the day will take it to the next day and does not
look at the calendar.

Cheers

Hazza

-----Original Message-----
I am using Project in a simple planning sense without any

need to allocate resources atthis stage.

When entering in new tasks I am entering a start date and

a simple duration of 1 day and the finish date is 4 or 5
days away!

How do I get the finish date to equal the start date plus duration?

I have tried all the tools options to ensure I have a

normal calendar and that my new tasks are not effort
driven.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Newby,

As you will read n a million posts in this group, avoid putting in start
dates.
Project is for calculating start dates (for instance, from links between
tasks) and when you use a software, it is a bit awkward to feed in the
result of a calculation it wants to do.

Furthermore, take a look at

http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
Faq 5. Default Working hours

(BTW when you do not have resources, task types and efoort driven do not
come into play)

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/index.htm
32-495-300 620

I am using Project in a simple planning sense without any need to allocate resources atthis stage.

When entering in new tasks I am entering a start date and a simple

duration of 1 day and the finish date is 4 or 5 days away!

How do I get the finish date to equal the start date plus duration?

I have tried all the tools options to ensure I have a normal calendar and

that my new tasks are not effort driven.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Newby,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

You might like to have a look at my series of Microsoft Project lessons in
the TechTrax ezine, particularly Lesson #2 at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to rate it before leaving the
site, Thanks.)

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

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP