Angelo A asks: "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find within Microsoft Project a cumulative resource graph over time, representing the total headcount (in total hours) of manpower (FTE or EQP) across a given project. To add to your troubles, there are resources that aren’t resources, namely the subcontract, travel, equipment numbers that are thrown in and will need to be filtered back out of the totals. A labor histogram is what would work best for us."

Answer: I will accept this mission and do my best to answer this question. The histogram that you are looking for can be found in the Resource Usage view. This view is by resource name and you will be looking at each resource individually. Below is a view showing the head count you're looking for. On the graph it's called Peak Units. This value may be looked as either in the decimal or percentage -- the picture below is showing the decimal view and time density per month.

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