By default, Microsoft Project notifies of overallocation on a day-by-day basis. Although that may be sufficient for some projects, other levels of sensitivity may be more appropriate such as week-by-week, or month-by-month.
In the following illustration, Bradley Beck and Wendy Wheeler are overallocated as defined by the default leveling sensitivity setting of Day by Day:
To change leveling sensitivity to week-by-week, from the Resource tab, Level group, click Leveling Options as shown in the following illustration:
From the Resource Leveling dialog box, change leveling sensitivity to Week by Week as shown in the following illustration:
Once OK is selected, Bradley Beck and Wendy Wheeler are no longer denoted as overallocated as shown in the following illustration:
Applies To: All Current Versions of Microsoft Project.