Letting Project Level Overallocated Resources for You

Instead of leveling individual tasks and assignments on your own, you can have Project calculate task or assignment delays to remove resource overallocations. Project searches through the project, looking for resources that display the Leveling indicator. Using the settings in the Resource Leveling dialog box, which is described later in this chapter, in the section “Configuring Settings in the Resource Leveling Dialog Box,” Project selects tasks to be delayed in order to resolve overallocations for resources that display the Leveling indicator.

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Project doesn’t delay material resource assignments. However, if the leveling operation changes the duration of a task, the material assignments ...

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