MS Project 2010 - Custom Duration summaries in hours

Question

I have a custom Duration field in MS Project 2010 that I want to display in hours. (I'm tracking work estimates.) For task lines, I can enter the value in hours (e.g. 8 hrs.) and it displays it that way. On the custom field definition, I have set the summary values to be a sum of the task lines. However, all the summary lines display the duration in days, not hours. How can I get the summary lines to display in hours?

I've tried:

• Setting all the tasks under the summary to a number of hours. The summary is still in days.
• Turning off the summation of summary lines, setting the summary lines to 0 hrs so that they display that way, then turning summation back on. The summary lines then revert to days.

Answer 1

Duration display in Project is set through the option settings in File > Options. That setting controls the display of all calculated durations and summary task lines are calculated.

You can use a spare text field (text1 for example) to display the entered values in hours. Assuming you have the entered values in Duration 1:

            **Duration1/480*8 & " hours"**

I hope this helps.