Duration in Hours in Microsoft Project & Total hours Calculated? 1

[lsgko]

I'm trying to put a weekly schedule in Microsoft project 2003, Is there a way to set the duration so I can enter times? (I.E. 2:30PM - 4:30AM)

Also, I would like to have a total of the hours of work for the week calculated. How would I do that?

I'm not sure if MS Project is the correct tool for this but I would like something to look at the graphs. Any suggestions?

 

[PDQBach]

Programs which control schedules are about as useful running projects as Project can be when used to run a schedule. Just because you can use a wrench like a hammer ...

Nevertheless:

Tools | Options | View-tab and set date format to something with hours.

Tools | Options | Schedule-tab and change Duration is entered in to hours.

By the way, 2:30AM to 4:30AM is not a duration; those are start and finish. Duration is 2 hours in this case (work could be anything, as I'm sure you must be aware).

As for total hours work in a week, this is not an immediately intuitive setup.

You've already displayed View | Resource Usage, of course. That put you half way there.

Change the timescale so the bottom tier shows weeks (you've proably already done that, too).

Here's the unexpected part:

Project | Group By ... | Work vs. Material resources. The top line in the display will show you the number of hours of work you have scheduled.