Microsoft Project Creating Base Calendars

Creating Base Calendars

The Project might need more than one calendar.

•      Sometimes certain resources work different hours to others.

•      The project might be a multinational project

•      Certain tasks can only be done at certain times

As many calendars as necessary can be created. The calendars created will only be in the project file they are created in. They can be copied over to other project files or to the standard template.

To create a new base calendar

1.     Menu, Tools, Change Working Time

2.     Click on the New Button

The new calendar can be a totally new calendar or a copy of an existing calendar. It depends on whether the non working time that has been set for one calendar need to be applied to the new calendar or not.

The calendar needs to be given a relevant name and then once the calendar has been OKed, then the changes required to the calendar can be made as discussed before.