Highlight overlapping tasks ???

Will Project2007 show notification of where/which tasks over-lap by
highlighting the task list, or by some other obvious means other than having
to search through the gantt chart ?
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akm
Thanks again for your help.
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Mike
Sat May 17 14:37:21 CDT 2008

Hi Akm,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

If you build your project with logical links between tasks, they cannot
overlap unless you dictate some lead time. However, when you have assigned
resources, then Project will show you any overlap of resources and will
allow you to select levelling to remove those overlaps.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my Project Tutorials


akm wrote:
> Will Project2007 show notification of where/which tasks over-lap by
> highlighting the task list, or by some other obvious means other than
> having to search through the gantt chart ?

Trevor
Sun May 18 12:08:12 CDT 2008

Do you mean tasks which overlap because there is a predecessor link between
them with FS + negative lag, SS + positive lag etc, or tasks which overlap
because they are on different paths? Lag is easy to find with filters.
The other kind is easy to find also. This is a fairly clumsy way but works.
Just assign a dummy resource to every task and anywhere it is overallocated
there is overlap and it shows up in the indicators column of the Gantt
Chart.
Trevor Rabey 0407213955 61 8 92727485 PERFECT PROJECT PLANNING
www.perfectproject.com.au
"akm" <akm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C68DB2C-9FEB-4804-AF52-D6E449E95408@microsoft.com...
> Will Project2007 show notification of where/which tasks over-lap by
> highlighting the task list, or by some other obvious means other than
> having
> to search through the gantt chart ?
> --
> akm
> Thanks again for your help.
> ----
> Ah, the miracle of computers!... someone also said "To error is human, but
> to really screw up it takes a computer!"