How do you zoom in Primavera P6 when presenting your schedule online during a Teams or Zoom call? Here is a workaround…

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.

Steps to follow if you want to display number of weeks from the Project Start Date instead of Start & Finish dates in a Primavera P6 schedule layout.

Learn how to set-up a layout for highlighting activities that are behind baseline finish dates on a Primavera P6 Gantt chart.

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).

How to produce a report in Primavera P6 that shows baseline details, such as Baseline Name, Baseline Data Date, Assigned Baselines etc., for multiple projects in a Portfolio.

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

Here is a quick tip showing how to create a filter for activities with lags in a Primavera P6 schedule

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.

Display your P6 dates without the “A” or “*” suffixes that come with actual and constrained dates. Also, display both start & finish dates for milestones.

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?

Does the start date of an activity that has not started or finish date of an activity in-progress in Primavera P6 not look right? You might have an out of sequence activity in your schedule network, so follow this tip to easily identify the activity.

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.