Microsoft Project is a great tool, but sometimes it just needs something a little bit extra. We have worked on some big schedules and programs of schedules. Below are a number of macros that have made our work quicker and easier that are now available for you to benefit from as well.
Four of the following macros are free. The rest do have a price, but it is far less than the cost of manually doing the work the macro replaces or of writing even part of them youself. So these macros either save their cost every time you use them or greatly enhance your project reporting capability, or both.
We have more macros in the pipeline, so be sure to check back soon for more productivity boosters. Meanwhile have a look at our current offerings that will help you get more done for less effort:
- Recalculate Assignment
Units. Project 2010 onwards made life awkward for all
schedulers editing resource assignemnts. Units stopped showing the
latest value, miss-communicating what resource availability is
required. The Recalculate Assignment Units macro redisplays all
units as remaining units: the units required to complete the
assignment. FREE
Find out more on the recalculate assignment units macro here. - Scroll Gantt Chart is
a simple but useful macro that when you open your project it
scrolls the timescale to today's date. FREE
Find out more on the scroll Gantt Chart macro here. - Format duration was a
sample macro included in older versions of Project. It lets you
change duration units to your preferred value. Microsoft dropped
it, we've restored and improved it. FREE
Find out more on the Format Duration macro here. - PERT Analysis is
useful for calculating more realistic durations for tasks. This
macro lets you default to percentages rather than specific values
and lets you adjust the weighting for optimistic and pessimistic
values. FREE
Find out more on the PERT macro here.
As more and more of your reporting needs
are automated,
the greater the incentive to maintain a more accurate and useful
schedule.