Task Duration and Changing Calendar Dates

[Nors]

I am major problems trying to set up a project with budgeted hours and specific timelines. Resource Paul to work 6 hours to complete a 6 hour task on Monday. - no problem
Resource Paul to work the remaining 2 hours on Monday on a new 4 hour task and the balance of 2 hours on this task on Tuesday. - Problem: When I enter the 4 hour duration, MP calculates the start and finish dates both on Monday. Then, I have Paul scheduled for 10 hours that day (instead of the normal 8 hours). When I try to change the finish date to Tuesday so he could work 2 hours on this task on Monday and 2 hours on Tuesday, MP automatically increases the duration to 16 hours vs. my original 4 hours. I am having a nightmare of a battle with this issue as all of my tasks will be split between days and I cannot get project to allow for such splitting. I have set the baseline of 4 hours for this task, however, my calendar is a mess because I can't schedule people for accurate dates and times.

I would think this is a basic scheduling/project management function, but I can't seem to find what I am doing wrong. I am using Microsoft Project Standard 2002.

Please help!!!!

 

[PDQBach]

Tolls | Options | View tab
Change "Date format" to something showing date and time.

 

[Nors]

Thank you so much for your help. I changed the date format to include time and it works! However, will I have to go in and manually change all the times? I would think MP would do that automatically if I enter 4 hours for a task's duration, shouldn't it just update the next 4 hours if they should be split between days? Do I have to level resources for it to automatically update?

 

[PDQBach]

The default duration is 1 day.

If you have 6 hours of work and you expect it to be accomplished in 6 hours then you must enter 6h in duration.