I have been working with Microsoft Project and managing projects my entire career in systems which has run a total of 25 years. I usually enter the base task information, predecessors, etc and let Project handle its majic. I have a need to enter more information into project like total project hours, total development hours but do not always have the testing hours to complete the equation. I thought it would be great if Project could calculate the testing hours by subtracting development hours from total hours. Oh, but I knew that Project did not support calculations.
Well, I was wrong. I googled calculations and I found this wonderful site that told me how to do exactly what I wanted to do. The site is Wise Owl and the post was from Andrew Gould at http://www.wiseowl.co.uk/blog/s151/custom_fields_in_microsoft_project_pt3.htm.
This was very helpful post and a great place to go to get helpful Microsoft Project answers. Now I know that there are a large number of options available to me when inserting custom columns into Microsoft Project.
