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Application.DurationFormat Method

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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.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub DurationInWeeks()
    MsgBox DurationFormat(ActiveCell.Task.Duration, pjWeeks)
End Sub

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