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Leveling resources

Leveling resources - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Leveling resources

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Project's Level Resources feature delays and splits resource assignments to help you get rid of overallocations. You can level the entire project or just the portions that are giving you trouble. If you're going to work on resource overallocations, the best view is the Leveling Gantt. So on the Task tab click the bottom half of Gantt Chart button and then choose Leveling Gantt. If you don't see it on this dropdown menu you can go down to More Views. Then in the More Views dialog box select Leveling Gantt and click Apply. Now go to the Resource tab. Before you actually level resources, you have to set some options to tell Project how you want to level. So to do that, in Level section click Leveling Options. The first choice is Automatic or Manual. It's set to Manual by default and that's really the best choice. That means Project will only level when you tell it to. If you select Automatic, Project re-levels whenever you make a change to the project and that slows everything down. So…

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