Task bar doesn't reflect actual timing

[jackvinson]

This may be a dumb question, but I've seen it many, many times over the years
of using MS Project. The main confusion is that the Gantt view and the task
data do not seem to correlate correctly. Specifically, the task bars
displayed in Gantt appear to be longer than the duration and start/finish
displayed in the task information.

These are tasks with durations in the few hours range. The task bar will
sometimes extend itself to the next hour. (This would be like "snap to grid"
in graphics programs, but it doesn't happen everywhere.) The problem seems
to appear particularly in the "blue" regions of the Gantt chart that are
"lunch" and "overnight" hours on a 40-hour work week. This doesn't change if
I switch to a 24x7 calendar for the project and the resources.

Is this simply a matter of the way tasks are displayed on the Gantt, or is
there something else happening beneath the surface?

Thanks,

Jack Vinson

 

[jackvinson]

Found it. Right click on the Gantt chart, select Layout, and uncheck the
setting for "Round bars to whole days." This must create the "snap to grid"
behavior that I've been seeing around the default shift-change times, even in
24x7 projects.