Task Duration showing on Calendar view

[Susan]

I am new to Project (2003) and have been able to figure things out well except I'm not having luck in this one area.... Is there a way to display tasks in the calendar view using only the finish date? We have many, many tasks over long durations so we get lots of bars going across our calendar. Ideally we'd like to print the calendar showing due dates only (without the duration bars). Short of changing all our start/finish dates to the same date, is there another way to do it? Thank you in advance for any tips!

 

[Mark Durrenberger]

If you right click on the Calendar view you can bring up the "Bar styles"
window. This gives you some control over how the bars are displayed but you
can't just show the "end date"

You can reduce the bars to lines which will de-clutter your calendar.

Regards,
Mark


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I am new to Project (2003) and have been able to figure things out well

except I'm not having luck in this one area.... Is there a way to display
tasks in the calendar view using only the finish date? We have many, many
tasks over long durations so we get lots of bars going across our calendar.
Ideally we'd like to print the calendar showing due dates only (without the
duration bars). Short of changing all our start/finish dates to the same
date, is there another way to do it? Thank you in advance for any tips!

 

[JulieS]

Hi Susan,

In addition to Mark's suggestion, if the project file has
not grown too large, you may wish to put in milestones
for your deliverables. Because milestones have 0
duration, the start and finish dates are the same date.

Then in the calendar view, filter the project for
milestones and the bars which have the long durations
will disappear, showing only your "due dates"

Hope this helps.
Julie

-----Original Message-----
I am new to Project (2003) and have been able to figure

things out well except I'm not having luck in this one
area.... Is there a way to display tasks in the calendar
view using only the finish date? We have many, many tasks
over long durations so we get lots of bars going across
our calendar. Ideally we'd like to print the calendar
showing due dates only (without the duration bars). Short
of changing all our start/finish dates to the same date,
is there another way to do it? Thank you in advance for
any tips!