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Show Calendar Days instead of Dates in MS Project Schedule columns

Sometimes during tender or bid submission for a project, the client might not provide a Project start date and bidders would be required to show ordinal dates in the Gantt chart timeline and calendar days in the start and finish dates columns, so that, for each activity, the schedule will show start and finish days, e.g. for a 10-day activity, the schedule will show day 1 in the start column and day 10 in the finish column.

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2 Ways to Show Ordinal Dates instead of Calendar Dates in Primavera P6 Schedule

In this tutorial, I will show you 2 methods of displaying ordinal dates in a Primavera P6 schedule, the first method uses Microsoft Excel and the second uses Global Change facility in P6. Ordinal dates schedules are usually required when a project does not have a defined calendar start date.

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I called an old colleague just to say “hello” and see how he was doing.  We have worked together at different companies over the past dozen years.  He is an inspirational finance executive and counted on me to implement his vision.