Microsoft Software 2007
Calendars and Scheduling exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Software 2007 CALENDARS AND SCHEDULING exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl MICROSOFT PROJECT 2007 course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Summer Shutdown - Changing Working Time

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1)	Create a new blank project file.
2)	Use the Project Information dialog box to: schedule the project from a Project Start Date of 1 June this year; and choose an overall project calendar of 24 Hours
3)	You may notice that the Gantt Chart is still showing Nonworking Time for the Standard calendar.  Remedy this by formatting the Gantt's nonworking time with the correct calendar.
	Right-click on the Gantt Chart and choose Nonworking Time
4)	The office will shut down for 2 weeks in the summer.  Use the Change Working Time dialog box to create an Exception called "Summer Shutdown" and make the first 14 days of August nonworking time.
	Exception days are marked in blue
5)	Scroll through to August on the Gantt Chart to check that the summer shutdown period is correctly displayed as nonworking time.
6)	Save the file with the name August Shutdown.mpp and close it down.

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