 In this training video, we're going to look at customizing the calendar for Microsoft Project to make sure we set Project up the way we want it to work. So in this example, if we look at how Project is set up by default, it works from a Monday to a Friday, and then the weekends happen to be Saturday and Sunday. Now Project calls Monday to Friday working and Saturday and Sunday non-working. So the white is working and the gray is non-working. Now for hours in a day, Project by default works to eight hours per day. So if we don't customize it correctly and get it to work the way we need it to work for our operational needs, Project would never help us and give us the accuracy we need. So we're going to learn to customize Microsoft Project to our specific needs. So what we're going to say in this example, in this example, we're going to say the working week is going to be Wednesday to a Sunday. That's the five-day week and Monday and Tuesday are going to be the weekends, the non-working. Are we not going to work eight-hour days? We're going to work seven-hour days. So let's see what we've got to do. So the first thing we've got to do is go to File Options and go to the Schedule area. Now underneath here, we can tell Project how many hours we want it to work, so the eight. But then if we don't want to point something over a week, we've got to get the whole numbers correct. So we'll start off with telling it the day we want. So you want a day to be Wednesday. We want the hours per day to be seven. Well, five sevens are 35. So that's why I'm putting 35 in the working week. Now we can set the hours, that's more to do with cosmetics. We could say it between nine and five. They work in seven hours or nine and four. So we can set the hours ourselves to be more of a cosmetic appearance. But the engine behind Project is running with the hours per day. That's a calculation plus the hours per week and the day it's working on. So we're going to leave it like it is for now. And if we need to change anything, we'll change anything a bit later. Right now we'll leave it Wednesday start date. The hours are going to be seven hours per day and it's going to be 35 hours per week. We're going to click OK. And what's going to happen when I click OK? We'll see a little flicker whereby the week segment within the timescale area moves in line with the Wednesday. That's what we're going to see. So the week is just going to shift over to the Wednesday. And there we go. So the week has now aligned itself to a Wednesday. Well, Project still isn't going to work for us because that's only one part of the customization. We've now got to go into the Project tab and use an area called Change Working Times. Now by default, Project comes with three calendars, 24 hours night shift and standard calendar. Well, standard calendar is what's set the project. Now that's set to work. An eight hour working day between eight and 12 and one and five. So in effect, it's taken off an hour's lunch. So that's the calculation project is set in itself. Eight hours in a working day. So we might say in our example, well, we don't want it to work eight hours because we've just changed it. So we've got to update the working weeks and you'll notice Project is still working on a Monday to a Friday with Saturday and Sunday grayed out. So we need to change the whole of Project's way of working right now through the change working time for the standard calendar. So on the work weeks, default, details, and we can see now it's set itself to a Wednesday because that's what we've changed in the schedule. So I'm going to highlight Wednesday to a Sunday with my shift key. Now I'm going to choose the third option, set days to these specific working times. Now I'm just going to give it an hour earlier finish. So I'm going to leave it eight to 12 for four hours and then it's going to be one, two. I'm going to take away the 17 and I'm going to make it 16.00. So I've now changed the working time from eight hours to seven hours. That's the way I'm going to put it to calculate itself. Now what you'll notice, when I click okay, the timings will change when I click on another date. So I'll need to click on another date first, but then you'll see the timings change. So it's not going to be eight to 12 and one to five. It's going to be eight to 12, one to four. That's what's going to happen when I click okay and click on a different date. So I'm going to click okay. They've all gone white because now Project doesn't know what's not working. But if I click on another date now, we'll now see it's one to four. So one to four, one to four. But you'll notice Monday because it doesn't know what to do with the Monday, it's working one to five. And a Tuesday because we haven't set these, but anything from Wednesday onwards, we can now see it's done its job. So very clever. So now we need to update the non-working. So same idea. Work weeks, default, details. And this time Monday and Tuesday, I'm going to set the non-working. Okay, and now we can see the picture. Monday and Tuesday are non-working. Wednesday onwards is working eight to 12, one to four. Click okay. And when we click okay, we'll see the whole of the working week change within Microsoft Project. And there we go. So Wednesday to Sunday now happens to be the working week. So that's the working week, Wednesday to Sunday. And the weekend happens to be Monday and Tuesday. And this gives you an idea now how to customize Microsoft Project to your own working operational needs. Because this is an area that many organizations find troublesome and they tend to use the project default start date, starting times and don't customize it. And the problem with that is their projects then are often not accurate to real world. So that's the issue that arises if customization is not undertaken within Microsoft Project. But this covers in this training video, customizing Microsoft Project to set working times. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you like and subscribe to our channel. Hope to see you for the next tutorial and thanks for watching.