Microsoft® Office Project 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Working with Calendars

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✓	Exploring the Base, Project, Resource, and Task calendars
✓	Understanding how calendars work together
✓	Setting calendar options, working times
✓	Creating the Project calendar
✓	Using Project Guide to make calendar settings
✓	Working with Task calendars
✓	Using Resource calendars
✓	Creating your own calendar templates
✓	Copying calendars to another project

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Time: There’s never enough of it, so using what you’ve got wisely can make the difference between a successful project and a disaster. In Microsoft Project, one of your most useful tools for getting your project timing right is calendars. Calendars allow you to define working and non-working time, such as your average workday or workweek, and specify exceptions such as holidays.

It’s not difficult to define your company’s typical workday, whether everybody works from 9 to 5 or particular jobs call for people to work from midnight to 8 a.m. Project 2007 calendars allow you to set standards for typical working time and then allow for variation. But to make life interesting, Project 2007 has several types of calendars you have to deal with.

The Big 4: Base, Project, Resource, and Task Calendars

Mastering the four calendars in Project 2007 takes a little time. However, understanding how calendars work in Project 2007 is essential to mastering the software. You schedule tasks and assign resources based on the calendar settings that you make. The costs accumulated by ...