Project.Application.DurationFormat.md

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Application.DurationFormat method (Project)	vbapj.chm131212	vbapj.chm131212	project-server	Project.Application.DurationFormat	37970edc-c6f9-66b7-7c0d-b22beb8a36c1	06/08/2017	medium

Application.DurationFormat method (Project)

Returns a duration in the specified units.

Syntax

expression. DurationFormat( _Duration_, _Units_ )

expression A variable that represents an Application object.

Parameters

Name	Required/Optional	Data type	Description
Duration	Required	Variant	The duration to be expressed.
Units	Optional	Long	The units used to express the duration. Can be one of the PjFormatUnit constants.

Return value

String

Remarks

The time label that appears next to the duration uses the format specified by the timescale as: setting on the Edit tab of the Options dialog box, where timescale is "Minutes", "Hours", "Days", "Weeks", "Months", or "Years".

For example, if Duration is "2w", Units is pjDays, and the Days as: setting is "day", the DurationFormat method returns "10 days".

Example

The following example displays the duration of the selected task in weeks.

Sub DurationInWeeks() 
 MsgBox DurationFormat(ActiveCell.Task.Duration, pjWeeks) 
End Sub

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