From the course: Learning Microsoft Project for the Web (Planner Web App)

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Setting task durations

Setting task durations

From the course: Learning Microsoft Project for the Web (Planner Web App)

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Setting task durations

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- [Instructor] At Wisdom Pet Medicine, we know a lot about animal care, but not a lot about building a dog park. However, it is still important to estimate how long different tasks might take so we can later on determine who can do those tasks. When you want to put an estimate in, it's simply putting a value in the duration column. And if you type a number, Microsoft automatically assumes days. So let me show you. I'm just pressing enter after each one. Now, days is not your only option. You could do hours if you would prefer. That's an H. You could do minutes, that's an M. You could also do a bigger timeframe, like weeks, two W is weeks. You could even do months. That's MO. Now, I should caution you about months. It might not be accurate enough for you because months are essentially calculated considering the average number of days that would occur in a month over a year. Personally, I prefer days and weeks,…

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