Find Overallocated Resources

Before you can resolve overallocations, you must find out which resources are overallocated, when they are overallocated, and what tasks they are assigned to at those times.

While you’re looking for overallocated resources, you can also look for any underallocated resources. You might want to assign them some of the work currently being done by overallocated resources. Underallocated resources are those assigned to work fewer hours than they have available.

To find overallocated resources and their task assignments

To see a different unit of time in the timescale portion of the Resource Allocation view, click Zoom In or Zoom Out .

1. On the View Bar, click More Views .
2. In the Views list, click Resource Allocation, and then click Apply.
3. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Resource Management.
4. In the top pane, click the heading of the Resource Name field.
5. Click Go To Next Overallocation .
   The next task under the next overallocated resource is highlighted in the Resource Name field.
6. In the top pane, look at the timescale to see when the resource is overallocated.
   Microsoft Project displays in red the total hours of work assigned to an overallocated resource.
7. In the bottom pane, look at the timescale to see the tasks that occur on the overallocated dates.

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