G'day All,

I'm trying to learn to use ProjectLibre to help my husband start his own home business.  I am sure I will have a lot of question, but I promise I will spend many hours googling for the answer before resorting to asking questions on here.

In case you require it, I am running Lion on Macbook Pro. I am currently trying to teach myself Open Office 4.0 in Base and Calc as well, and will use those programs too in the running and planning of my husbands business.

I can input data easy as pie, but coding and changing the program insides is beyond me, so please speak "non-techie" to me. :D

1. My first is about the date format. But I believe that will be fixed in the next release and I read to look out for it after October.  Is that correct?  Is there any workaround I can use before then?
2. Secondly, I would like to change the colour of the non-working hours on my Gantt chart.  So for example, I have a 6 hour work day (9am to 3.30pm with a 1/2 hr break at 12.30), no work on weekends, and a task that takes 10 hours.  If I start it on Friday at 1pm, then it will finish on Tues at 10.30am.  Currently the bar on the gantt chart shows a red box from 1pm friday to 10.30am Tues.  I would like it to be greyed out for the non working hours, or at least for the weekeknds.  Is that possible?  If not, will the new version have something like that? If not, is that something you think could be incorporated into the new version? Is there a work around?
3. Is it possible to import events from a calendar program that will automatically mark the time as non-work time?  For example, if I have an appointment 10-11am on Wednesday, which is normally working time, can I import that meeting and have the times automatically update to reflect that no work will be done at that time?  Is there a particular calendar program that this would work best with? Also, what about holidays? Is there an auto feature that will import all the usual public holidays etc? Or is there a work around so I don't have to format every day individually (such as school holidays)?

Thats it for now.  But I am sure I will have more questions soon.

Thank you for your help, and I apologise if I am asking too many things.  I appreciate any information I can get on this, even if its just "no can do" at least that way I can stop looking for the answer.

Belinda

PS - How do I go about making suggestions to the writers of the new version (such as my second query)?