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Alright so far we've gotten started with a very simple project and we've entered a few tasks here and we have set the durations of those tasks. Let's say that you have a task that's important to the completion of the project, certainly so for shooting a film, developing that film is of course is going to be a very important task. You might know for example that this task takes 16 hours and if I enter this in for the duration as I'm doing here notice what's going to happen to the start and end times. It's going to start on in this case Friday 6-1 and it's going to finish Monday 6-4. Why? Because 16 hours is two work days and by the way you can change all and I'll show you how to do this here in just a moment. But what if you know that this develop film task, it's going only take 16 hours, this is not a task that is dependent on your work schedule but it certainly may relate to tasks either before or after this one, like we can't do anything with the film until we get it developed. Here we are with this task and the way to remedy that is 16EH and what the E stands for is elapsed hours and that will ignore what is going on in your working days. So 16 elapsed hours means it will only take me 16 hours to get this task done, so let's see how that changes the Gant chart over here. So now the start time is going to be Friday 6-1 and the finish if I start at 8am takes me 16 hours to get this done, then I can go pick up the film the next morning from the lab. Keep that in mind as your building your tasks, because certainly that's going to be appropriate for various tasks and certainly this one would be a great example of when you would use the elapsed hours or the elapsed days signifier for configuring your time. Now I mentioned where you could change some of these things about your work week and your work hours and that is under tools menu, click on options and open up your options dialog box. And these parameters that you set here, the default by the way, as I was making some edits before I did this module, are going to be 8, as I change it back, 8 hours a day, 40 hours week, 20 days to a month. So what that simple means is that if you configure a task that is let's say three days the is the same as entering in 24 hours worth of task information. So again, those are going to be your default options. You can make changes and set those as default. And you do that of course with this dialog box that I'm showing you here, tools options and then click on that calendar tab.