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Change the date format in a specific view

Change the date format in a specific view

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Change the date format in a specific view

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- [Bonnie] Hi, Bonnie Biafore again. In this tip you'll see how to change the date format in one view without changing it everywhere else in Project. So you probably already know that Project has an option for the date format. We're going to go to the File tab, and then choose Options, and in the General category you can see that there is a box Date Format. And you can choose the format that you want to appear throughout Project. So, for example, if I select a date time format instead and click OK all of a sudden the dates don't appear in the Start and Finish columns. All you see are these hashtags because the value's too big for the current width. If I point at the right side of the Start heading and double-click it'll make it wide enough so I can see the dates are in date and time format and that applies to other views. So if I click the bottom half of the Gantt Chart button, and let's say I choose Task Usage. If I put in a date here, again, I can expand that column and I've got…

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