How to show a progress bar on Summary Tasks in Microsoft Project or fix the issue with progress bar not showing correctly.

Paste or enter a 2 digit year (yy) date later than 2029 into Excel and you might notice that Excel converts it into a 19yy date instead of 20yy.

How to highlight specific working periods (shaded background) on a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart and label them using textboxes.

One way of highlighting tasks that are behind schedule (Finish Variance greater than 0 days) on a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart.

Set-up a filter in Microsoft Project to show Tasks assigned a constraint type other than As Soon As Possible.

Semi-automatically change the colour of multiple tasks’ text in a Microsoft Project that meet a condition by running a simple macro (Microsoft Project conditional formatting).

Display variance against all other baselines (Baseline1 to Baseline10) in a Microsoft Project schedule not only the current baseline.

Present your Microsoft Project lookahead schedule with tasks grouped by dates in addition to the default View that groups tasks by WBS.

Follow the steps outlined in this video if you want to show a milestone on a task bar in Microsoft Project.

Here are 2 ways to create P6 style Level of Effort or Hammock tasks in Microsoft Project; the recommended method from Microsoft Project and an alternative that is common in subsea construction.

Tired of using Date Range filter for your lookahead in Microsoft Project or do you crave setting up a rolling date lookahead filter just like you would in Primavera P6?

Show only the month & year of dates in a Microsoft Project schedule for senior management use or bid submission. This tutorial also shows you how to hide the Gantt chart of a Microsoft Project schedule.

Microsoft Project, unlike Primavera P6, allows users to have different date formats for different Views of the same schedule.

Here is a quick tip on my preferred method for assigning actual start & finish dates to tasks in Microsoft Project, i.e. through the Task Details Form

This tutorial is for Primavera P6 users who also need to manage a Microsoft Project schedule and would like to display an Activity ID column with unique alphanumeric ids in Microsoft Project.

Use custom fields to add start date and/or finish date week number columns, e.g. a column to show date in the format “2021 Week 10”, in a Microsoft project schedule

When all subtasks in Microsoft Project are milestones, the summary task percent complete is always 0% unless all the subtasks are 100%. The workaround in this tutorial will display a % complete based on number of milestones completed.

Baseline Execution Index (BEI) is one of the metrics in the DCMA 14-Point Assessment for project schedules and in this post, we are going to look at how to calculate and display BEI in a Microsoft Project schedule.