How to highlight periods of delays, weather seasons or downtimes on a Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project Gantt chart using curtains.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used reporting tools by Planners and Schedulers and this quick tip, will show how to highlight rows in an Excel worksheet that meet a criteria.

Have you inherited or received a schedule and you could not understand the reason for some of the information in schedule and wished there was an accompanying document, which provided the assumptions used to build the schedule?

Ever tried working with multiple task calendars in Microsoft Project and could not understand why the durations in days or weeks were not as expected?

Primavera P6 is massive and for someone new to P6, it can be daunting. Most P6 training courses will only teach you how to use P6 without any explanation on why P6 does things in a certain way and for people switching to P6 from other scheduling software, things can get really confusing.

Do you want to show ordinal dates in a Gantt chart timeline or calendar days in the dates columns of a P6 schedule? Then this tutorial is for you.

Do you want to show ordinal dates (e.g. day 1, day 2, week 1, week 2 or month 1 etc) instead of Start and Finish dates in a Microsoft Project schedule?