How to set tasks on run days in the Project?

When creating an activity in the MS Project, it is attributed to it the standard duration for the feature, commonly being 40 hours divided into a week that goes from Monday to Friday. In other words, the working days.

However, if necessary, it is possible to change the duration to ran days in a simple way. For this, when inserting the task duration days, just add a dd, acronym for days elapsed. For example, for rundays, type 20dd (Perhaps the translation is not the best, but let's move on).

Note: If your Project is in English, the acronym is ed (elapsed days).

Using duration with days elapsed, the Project will ignore Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, even in custom calendars. Thus, the working scale will be 24x7.

See the example below that we have the tasks Planning 1 in Phase 1 and Planning 2 in Phase 2.

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You may be wondering when you should use this function, considering that no one can work twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week.

That's correct. The function days elapsed should be used mainly for physical or material resources, such as machinery, for example.

Some tips:

1 - It is not usual to resort to the function days elapsed, but if you need to use, remember that use is recommended for physical resources, not human resources.

2 - This function is also valid for other periods of duration, such as month or week. Ex:

• 1 week = 1sd (Week on running days);
• 1 month = 1med (month on rundays);

However, good practice recommends using ran days for greater control of the schedule.

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