+ or - adjustment to the overall project duration

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Stewart Green 👤 Member for 19 years 10 months
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Hello David



Many thanks for your reply. I see what you are explaining, but I must be trying to use the feature in the wrong way - can I call you for a quick chat to understand the use properly?



Also, I must agree about the under-training on these feature-rich softwares



Thanks

Stewart

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David Bordoli 👤 Member for 24 years 2 months
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Stewart



I am not sure what you mean by a ’global edit facility’ or what you are looking to do but I do think you might be surprised with some of the things you can do with Powerproject.



For instance, I am guessing you might be trying to globally adjust activity durations to crash a programme? Well, you can select any number of tasks (using Shift click for adjacent tasks or Ctrl click for individual tasks) then on the panel at the bottom, the middle window where the duration is shown, you can put stuff like -2d to decrease all the selected tasks by two days, similarly +2d will add two days to all the selected activity durations. More excitingly you can do stuff like put +50% and all selected activities will be increased by 50%.



Of course other global edits can be made by similarly selecting all or any number of tasks and dragging codes, recourses, cash and so on onto the tasks.



So... I am not absolutely sure what you mean when you are comparing to Primavera. I don’t think Primavera, especially P3, has the monopoly on tricks these days. Seems to me that lots of folk expect to be able to pick up feature rich software and use it without any formal training?



That’s all, no offence intended.



David

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