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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If you ever want to exclude the day portion of a date in a Primavera P6 schedule so that you are left with only the month & year portions of a date, then this tutorial is for you.

Learn how to use Expenses for lumpsum cost in Primavera P6 to generate data for use in Excel to plot progress s-curves when you cannot use resources to generate the data.

Do you have gaps on activity bars after the data date for activities that are in progress in Primavera P6? Get rid of the gaps with this quick tip.

Is your project team struggling to follow the logic of your Primavera P6 schedule? Learn how to produce a schedule logic report that lists predecessors, their dates, relationship types, lags & driving status.

This tutorial outlines the steps required to display two different units of durations in a Primavera P6 schedule.

When recording actuals or as-built details in Primavera P6, if the proper settings are not in place, you might be recording the wrong actual duration.

P6 allows us to nest activity code values into sub-levels but while there might be reasons to want to use activity codes nesting feature, I'm not a fan as nesting introduces WBS type rigidity to activity codes.

This quick tip shows how you can set-up a schedule layout in Primavera P6 to display different number of activity statistics for each WBS element and invariably for the whole project.

Sorting by start dates in Primavera P6 is quite easy but there are times when two activities with same start dates but different finish dates are not sorted in the desired order.

It is usually hard to tell the working calendar of an activity in a P6 schedule when looking at a pdf but luckily, there are ways to highlight different calendars.